mkdir

Options:

-m mode

When creating the directory, set the permission bits of the new directory to the specified mode value.

The mode argument is a symbolic_mode string, as defined for the chmod utility. In the symbolic_mode strings, the op characters + and - are interpreted relative to the default file mode for that file type:

+

Add permissions to the default mode.

-

Delete permissions from the default mode.

=

Assign permissions.

-p

Create any missing intermediate pathname components.

dir

A pathname at which a directory is to be created.

If you specify both the -p and -m options, any intermediate directories you have created have mode u+wx.

Description:

The mkdir utility creates the directories specified by the dir operands, in the order the dir operands are specified.

To create a directory, you must have write permission on the parent directory, or be root.

The default file mode for directories is a=rwx (777), with selected permissions removed in accordance with the file mode creation mask .

For intermediate pathname components created by mkdir, the mode is the default modified by u+wx so that the subdirectories can always be created regardless of the file-mode creation mask. If you want to assign different ultimate permissions for the intermediate directories, you can do so with the chmod utility.

When using -p with -m, each intermediate directory that doesn't exist is created with u+wx modes, regardless of the file mode creation mask. The specified mode applies only to the last directory specified. For example:

mkdir -p -m 777 dir/dir1/dir2

gives dir and dir1 the default permissions for intermediate directories (i.e. u+wx). The directory dir2 is given a+rwx permission.

Exit status:

0

All the specified directories were created successfully, or the -p option was specified and all the specified directories now exist.

>0

An error occurred.

Caveats:

If the mkdir utility is terminated by a signal, some of the specified directories may have already been created.