Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell

Name

mkdir

Synopsis

mkdir [options] directories

Creates one or more directories. You must have write permission in the parent directory to create a directory. See also rmdir . The default mode of the new directory is 0777, modified by the system or user’s umask.

Options

-m

Set the access mode for new directories. See chmod for an explanation of acceptable formats for mode.

-p

Create intervening parent directories if they don’t exist.

-v

Verbose mode. Print directories as they’re created.

Examples

Create a read-only directory named personal:

$ mkdir -m 444 personal

The following sequence:

$ mkdir work; cd work
$ mkdir junk; cd junk
$ mkdir questions; cd ../..

can be accomplished by typing this:

$ mkdir -p work/junk/questions