HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit, Second Edition

mkdir

How nice it would be to have a command to make a directory any time you wish. You could then use this command to create directories and thereby organize your files in multiple directories in a way similar to organizing files in a filing cabinet. The mkdir command allows you to do just that - make a directory.

This is an incredibly simple command. You specify the name of the directory to create. In the following example, we'll look at the contents of a directory with the ls command, use mkdir to make the directory named default.permissions, and then perform another ls to see the new directory:

$ ls -l
total 2
drwxr-xr-x   2 denise   users       1024 Oct 31 11:27 krsort.dir.old
$ mkdir default.permissions
$ ls -l total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 denise users ...