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1. Name
2. Synopsis
3. Frequently used options
4. Examples

1. Name

mkdir [man page] - make directories

2. Synopsis

mkdir [OPTION] DIRECTORY...

3. Frequently used options

-m, --mode=MODE
              set permission mode (as in chmod), not rwxrwxrwx - umask
-p, --parents
              no error if existing, make parent directories as needed

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4. Examples

Creating directory in the Linux environment is very simple task. Let's create directory named "dir1": 
mkdir dir1
mkdir - create directory
mkdir command can take more arguments. For example we can take two directories with only one command: 
mkdir dir2 dir3
mkdir - create two directories
mkdir command can also create entire directory tree. By using -p option mkdir will also create parent directories if required: 
mkdir -p dir4/dir4.1
mkdir - create parent directories
By default mkdir creates directory with permissions set by umask. To force mkdir to create directory with different permissions the -m option can be used. For example to create directory with [[chmod | permissions]] 744 we can issue following command: 
mkdir -m 744 dir5
mkdir - create directory and set permissions