Practical UNIX

Creating New Directories

Use the mkdir (make directory) command to create new directories, such as the following:

mkdir acme reports/acme

This example creates an acme directory within the current directory; it also creates one in the reports subdirectory of the current directory.

You can use the mkdir -p option to create a new directory and automatically create any missing parent directories, as in the following command:

mkdir -p /cities/Europe/UnitedKingdom/England/London

In this example, if the UnitedKingdom directory did not exist, it would be created. Then England would be created as a subdirectory, and London would be created as a subdirectory of England.

mkdir allows multiple pathnames, as noted in Table 3.4.

Table 3.4. One Other Property ...