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                     20: .Dd July 24, 1990
                     21: .Dt MKDIR 1
                     22: .Os BSD 4.4
                     23: .Sh NAME
                     24: .Nm mkdir
                     25: .Nd make directories
                     26: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     27: .Nm mkdir
                     28: .Op Fl p Ar directory_name  ...
                     29: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     30: .Nm Mkdir
                     31: creates the directories named as operands, in the order specified,
                     32: using mode
                     33: .Li \&0777
                     34: modified by the current
                     35: .Xr umask  2  .
                     36: .Pp
                     37: The options are as follows:
                     38: .Tw Ds
                     39: .Tp Fl p
                     40: Create intermediate directories as required.  If this option is not
                     41: specified, the full path prefix of each operand must already exist.
                     42: .Tp
                     43: .Pp
                     44: The user must have write permission in the parent directory.
                     45: .Pp
                     46: .Nm Mkdir
                     47: exits 0 if successful, and >0 if an error occurred.
                     48: .Sh SEE ALSO
                     49: .Xr rmdir 1
                     50: .Sh STANDARDS
                     51: Mkdir is POSIX 1003.2 compliant.
                     52: .br
                     53: This manual page is derived from the POSIX 1003.2 manual page.

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