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 8.2 (Berkeley) 01/25/94 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.Op Fl m Ar mode 21.Ar directory_name ... 22.Sh DESCRIPTION 23.Nm Mkdir 24creates the directories named as operands, in the order specified, 25using mode 26.Li rwxrwxrwx (\&0777) 27as modified by the current 28.Xr umask 2 . 29.Pp 30The options are as follows: 31.Pp 32.Bl -tag -width indent 33.It Fl m 34Set the file permission bits of the final created directory to 35the specified mode. 36The mode argument can be in any of the formats specified to the 37.Xr chmod 1 38command. 39If a symbolic mode is specified, the operation characters 40.Dq + 41and 42.Dq - 43are interpreted relative to an initial mode of 44.Dq a=rwx . 45.It Fl p 46Create intermediate directories as required. 47If this option is not specified, the full path prefix of each 48operand must already exist. 49Intermediate directories are created with permission bits of 50.Li rwxrwxrwx (\&0777) 51as modified by the current umask, plus write and search 52permission for the owner. 53.El 54.Pp 55The user must have write permission in the parent directory. 56.Pp 57.Nm Mkdir 58exits 0 if successful, and >0 if an error occurred. 59.Sh SEE ALSO 60.Xr rmdir 1 61.Sh STANDARDS 62The 63.Nm mkdir 64utility is expected to be 65.St -p1003.2 66compatible. 67