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.