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dir: /man/1/mkdir/
.TH MKDIR 1 .SH NAME mkdir \- make a directory .SH SYNOPSIS .B mkdir [ .B -p ] [ .I dirname ... ] .SH DESCRIPTION .I Mkdir creates the specified directories. It requires write permission in the parent directory. .PP The .B -p option causes .I mkdir to create the whole path .IR dirname , including any missing parent directories; it also will not complain if .I dirname already exists and is a directory. .PP The new directories are created with permissions starting with .B 8r777 but masked with the permissions of the parent directory according to the procedure followed by .IR 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. .SH SOURCE .B /appl/cmd/mkdir.b .SH "SEE ALSO" .IR chmod (1), .IR cd (1), .IR rm (1), .IR sys-open (2) .SH DIAGNOSTICS If any directory cannot be created successfully, .I mkdir prints a warning, and continues with any remaining directories, but returns .B \&"error" exit status at the end.