Ubuntu Unleashed 2013 Edition: Covering 12.10 and 13.04, Eighth Edition

Creating a Directory with mkdir

To create an empty directory called newdirectory within your current directory, use this command:

matthew@seymour:~$ mkdir newdirectory

You can create a directory in a different location by changing what is after mkdir. To create a new directory in /home/matthew/music, if I am already in my /home directory, I can use the following:

matthew@seymour:~$ mkdir music/newdirectory

Or from anywhere using an absolute path, I can use this:

matthew@seymour:~$ mkdir /home/matthew/music/newdirectory

Or from anywhere using a path shortcut, I can use the following command:

matthew@seymour:~$ mkdir ~/music/newdirectory

The -p option is valuable. It enables you to create a directory and its parent directories at the same time, ...