Sams Teach Yourself Shell Programming in 24 Hours, Second Edition

Manipulating Directories

The most common ways of manipulating a directory are

• Creating a directory

• Copying a directory

• Moving a directory

• Removing a directory

Creating Directories

You can create directories with the mkdir command (short for make directory). Its syntax is

mkdir dir
						

Here, dir is the absolute or relative pathname of the directory you want to create. For example, the command

$ mkdir hw1

creates the directory hw1 in the current directory. Here is another example:

$ mkdir /tmp/test-dir

This command creates the directory test-dir in the /tmp directory. The mkdir command produces no output if it successfully creates the requested directory.

If more than one directory is specified, mkdir will try to create each of the directories. ...