MKDIR

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2017
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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

set SELinux security context of each created directory to the default type

--context[=,CTX/]

like -Z, or if CTX is specified then set the SELinux or SMACK security context to CTX

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

 

AUTHOR

Written by David MacKenzie.  

REPORTING BUGS

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report mkdir translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2017 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)

Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/mkdir>
or available locally via: info aq(coreutils) mkdir invocationaq

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