mkdir Command mkdir
Create a directory
mkdir [ -r ] directory
mkdir creates directory. Files or directories with the same name
as directory must not already exist. directory will be empty ex-
cept for the entries `.', the directory's link to itself, and
`..', its link to its parent directory. The option -r creates
directories recursively. For example, the command
mkdir -r /foo/bar/baz
creates directory foo in /; then creates directory bar in the
newly created directory foo; and finally creates directory baz in
the newly created directory bar.
***** See Also *****
commands, rm, rmdir
***** Diagnostics *****
mkdir fails and prints an error message if you do not have per-
mission to write into directory in which you are attempting to
create a new directory, or if the directory in which you at-
tempted to create a new directory does not exist.
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