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mkdir — Create directories and set their permissions. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreut

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Problem

How to use the mkdir command: Create directories and set their permissions. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/mkdir-invocation.html>.

Solution

mkdir — Create directories and set their permissions. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/mkdir-invocation.html>.

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}}}

Code Snippets

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}}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/mkdir

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