NAME

mkdir − make a directory

SYNOPSIS

­mkdir [ ­dirname ...  ]

DESCRIPTION

­Mkdir creates the specified directories. It requires write permission in the parent directory. 

The new directories are created with permissions starting with ­8r777 but masked with the permissions of the parent directory according to the procedure followed by sys-open(2). For example, if the parent directory lacks write permission for group and has no permissions for others, so will the newly created directory.

SOURCE

­/appl/cmd/mkdir.b

SEE ALSO

chmod(1), cd(1), rm(1), sys-open(2)

DIAGNOSTICS

A warning message is printed when a directory cannot be created, but ­mkdir proceeds with the remaining names in the argument list. 

Plan 9  —  June 29, 2000