Mkdir
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Name
mkdir - make directories
Synopsis - man page
mkdir [OPTION] DIRECTORY...
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
Media
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 permissions 744 we can issue following command:
mkdir -m 744 dir5
