1.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 6.\" 7.\" %sccs.include.redist.roff% 8.\" 9.\" @(#)mkdir.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 05/31/93 10.\" 11.Dd 12.Dt MKDIR 1 13.Os 14.Sh NAME 15.Nm mkdir 16.Nd make directories 17.Sh SYNOPSIS 18.Nm mkdir 19.Op Fl p 20.Ar directory_name ... 21.Sh DESCRIPTION 22.Nm Mkdir 23creates the directories named as operands, in the order specified, 24using mode 25.Li \&0777 26modified by the current 27.Xr umask 2 . 28.Pp 29The options are as follows: 30.Pp 31.Bl -tag -width indent 32.It Fl p 33Create intermediate directories as required. If this option is not 34specified, the full path prefix of each operand must already exist. 35.El 36.Pp 37The user must have write permission in the parent directory. 38.Pp 39.Nm Mkdir 40exits 0 if successful, and >0 if an error occurred. 41.Sh SEE ALSO 42.Xr rmdir 1 43.Sh STANDARDS 44The 45.Nm mkdir 46utility is expected to be 47.St -p1003.2 48compatible. 49