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mkdir

v(uutils coreutils) 0.1.0

Options

--mode, -m

mkdir-help-mode

--parents, -p

mkdir-help-parents

--verbose, -v

mkdir-help-verbose

-Z

mkdir-help-selinux

--context=<CTX>

mkdir-help-context

Examples

Create specific directories:

mkdir {{path/to/directory1 path/to/directory2 ...}}

Create specific directories and their parents if needed:

mkdir {{[-p|--parents]}} {{path/to/directory1 path/to/directory2 ...}}

Create directories with specific permissions:

mkdir {{[-m|--mode]}} {{rwxrw-r--}} {{path/to/directory1 path/to/directory2 ...}}

Create multiple nested directories recursively:

mkdir {{[-p|--parents]}} {{path/to/{a,b}/{x,y,z}/{h,i,j}}}

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.