hpux man page for mkdir

mkdir(1)						      General Commands Manual							  mkdir(1)

NAME
       mkdir - make a directory

SYNOPSIS
       mode] dirname ...

DESCRIPTION
       creates	specified  directories in mode 0777 (possibly altered by unless specified otherwise by a option (see umask(1)).  Standard entries,
       (for the directory itself) and (for its parent) are created automatically.  If dirname already exists, exits with a diagnostic message, and
       the directory is not changed.

   Options
       recognizes the following command-line options:

	      After creating the directory as specified,
			  the file permissions are set to mode, which is a symbolic mode string as defined for (see chmod(1)).	The has precedence
			  over

	      Intermediate directories are created as necessary.
			  Otherwise, the full path prefix of dirname must already exist.  requires write permission in the parent directory.

			  For each directory name in the pathname prefix of the dirname argument that is not the name of  an  existing	directory,
			  the specified directory is created using the current setting, except that the equivalent of is done on each component to
			  ensure that can create lower directories regardless of the setting of Each directory name in the pathname prefix of  the
			  dirname argument that matches an existing directory is ignored without error.  If an intermediate path component exists,
			  but has permissions set to prevent writing or searching, fails with an error message.

			  If the option is used, the directory specified by dirname (excluding directories in the pathname prefix) is created with
			  the permissions specified by mode.

       Only subdirectories can be created (see limits(5)).

   Access Control Lists - JFS File Systems Only
       If the parent directory has an access control list (ACL, see aclv(5)), and that ACL contains default entries, an ACL is created for the new
       directory, and the parent directory's default entries are applied to the new directory's ACL,  both  as	regular  entries  and  as  default
       entries.

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
       For information about the UNIX standard environment, see standards(5).

   Environment Variables
       provides a default value for the internationalization variables that are unset or null.	If is unset or null, the default value of "C" (see
       lang(5)) is used.  If any of the internationalization variables contains an invalid setting, will behave  as  if  all  internationalization
       variables are set to See environ(5).

       If set to a non-empty string value, overrides the values of all the other internationalization variables.

       determines  the interpretation of text as single and/or multi-byte characters, the classification of characters as printable, and the char-
       acters matched by character class expressions in regular expressions.

       determines the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error  and  informa-
       tive messages written to standard output.

       determines the location of message catalogues for the processing of

   International Code Set Support
       Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.

DIAGNOSTICS
       returns exit code 0 if all directories were created successfully.  Otherwise, it prints a diagnostic and returns non-zero.

       returns	exit  code  0 if the option was specified, and all the specified directories now exist.  If any of the intermediate directories do
       not have search or write permission (with the option), prints a diagnostic and returns non-zero.

EXAMPLES
       Create directory beneath existing directory in the current directory:

       Create directory path underneath the current directory and set permissions on directory to read-only for all users

       which is equivalent to (see chmod(1)):

       If directories or and already exist, only the missing directories in the specified path are created.

SEE ALSO
       rm(1), setacl(1), sh(1), umask(1), aclv(5), standards(5).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
																	  mkdir(1)