mkdir − make directories

mkdir [options] directory...

POSIX options: [−p] [−m mode] [−−]

GNU options (shortest form): [−p] [−m mode] [−−verbose] [−−help] [−−version] [−−]

mkdir creates directories with the specified names.

By default, the mode of created directories is 0777 (‘a+rwx’) minus the bits set in the umask.

−m mode, −−mode=mode

Set the mode of created directories to mode, which may be symbolic as in chmod(1) and then uses the default mode as the point of departure.

−p, −−parents

Make any missing parent directories for each directory argument. The mode for parent directories is set to the umask modified by ‘u+wx’. Ignore arguments corresponding to existing directories. (Thus, if a directory /a exists, then ‘mkdir /a’ is an error, but ‘mkdir −p /a’ is not.)

−−verbose

Print a message for each created directory. This is most useful with −−parents.

−−

Terminate option list.

−−help

Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.

−−version

Print version information on standard output, then exit successfully.

−−

Terminate option list.

The variables LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES have the usual meaning.

POSIX 1003.2

This page describes mkdir as found in the fileutils-4.0 package; other versions may differ slightly. Mail corrections and additions to aeb@cwi.nl. Report bugs in the program to fileutils-bugs@gnu.ai.mit.edu.