MKDIR
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: December 2009
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NAME
mkdir - make directories
SYNOPSIS
mkdir
[OPTION]... DIRECTORY...
DESCRIPTION
Create the DIRECTORY(ies), if they do not already exist.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
- -m, --mode=MODE
-
set file mode (as in chmod), not a=rwx - umask
- -p, --parents
-
no error if existing, make parent directories as needed
- -v, --verbose
-
print a message for each created directory
- -Z, --context=CTX
-
set the SELinux security context of each created
directory to CTX
- --help
-
display this help and exit
- --version
-
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report mkdir bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
mkdir(2)
The full documentation for
mkdir
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info
and
mkdir
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info coreutils aqmkdir invocationaq
should give you access to the complete manual.