1130b656e5
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!) avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long. Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been insane otherwise.
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3.3 KiB
Groff
99 lines
3.3 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" @(#)mkdir.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/25/94
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd January 25, 1994
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.Dt MKDIR 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm mkdir
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.Nd make directories
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm mkdir
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.Op Fl p
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.Op Fl m Ar mode
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.Ar directory_name ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm
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creates the directories named as operands, in the order specified,
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using mode
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.Li rwxrwxrwx (\&0777)
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as modified by the current
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.Xr umask 2 .
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.Pp
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The options are as follows:
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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Fl m
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Set the file permission bits of the final created directory to
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the specified mode.
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The mode argument can be in any of the formats specified to the
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.Xr chmod 1
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command.
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If a symbolic mode is specified, the operation characters
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.Dq +
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and
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.Dq -
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are interpreted relative to an initial mode of
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.Dq a=rwx .
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.It Fl p
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Create intermediate directories as required.
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If this option is not specified, the full path prefix of each
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operand must already exist.
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Intermediate directories are created with permission bits of
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.Li rwxrwxrwx (\&0777)
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as modified by the current umask, plus write and search
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permission for the owner.
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.El
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.Pp
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The user must have write permission in the parent directory.
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.Pp
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.Nm
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exits 0 if successful, and >0 if an error occurred.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr rmdir 1
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Nm mkdir
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utility is expected to be
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.St -p1003.2
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compatible.
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.Sh HISTORY
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A
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.Nm
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command appeared in
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.At v1 .
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