mkdir
Last Updated on Sunday, 19 December 2010 10:15
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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
4. Media
5. Examples
Creating directory in the Linux environment is very simple task. Let's create directory named "dir1":
mkdir dir1
mkdir command can take more arguments. For example we can take two directories with only one command:
mkdir dir2 dir3
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
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
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