mkdir

mkdir creates directories with the specified NAMEs.

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• GNU Coreutils [EN] @ Fedora Package
• GNU Coreutils [EN] @ Homebrew Formula

• mkdir [EN] @ Wikipedia
• mkdir [DE] @ Wikipedia

Documentation

• mkdir [EN] @ GNU Coreutils Manual

• man 1 'mkdir' [EN]

Syntax

mkdir [PARAMETER ...] DIRECTORY [DIRECTORY ...]

Parameters

-m MODE, --mode=MODE

Set file MODE (as in chmod), not a=rwx - umask.

-p, --parents

No error if existing, make parent directories as needed.

-Z CONTEXT, --context=CONTEXT

Set the SELinux security context of each created directory to CONTEXT.

Example

Make a directory if it doesn't exist

if [[ ! -d './tmp' ]]; then
  mkdir -p './tmp'
fi