S6-MKDIR(1)

🎀 S6-MKDIR 🎀

okay so this is the manual page for s6-mkdir, a General Commands Manual situation, and bestie you're gonna get it in one sitting, i promise 💖

✨ NAME ✨

s6-mkdir — create directories 💅 like, that's the whole job and it eats

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

s6-mkdir [-p] [-v] [-m mode] [dir...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so s6-mkdir acts as the generic mkdir[1] utility. that's it, that's the description, she's not doing a whole TED talk about it 💀

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

⭐ Standard options

• -m mode — set the permissions of the new directory to mode. no cap, this is the one that decides who gets to peek inside 👀
• -p — create any missing intermediate pathname components. literally builds the whole chain of parent dirs for you so you don't have to do it one at a time, iconic behavior 🫶

🌈 Non-standard options

• -v — write what it does to stderr. yes bestie she's narrating her own life to the error stream, main character energy fr fr ✨

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💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

• 111 — temporary error. rough, but she'll recover 🙈
• 100 — permanent error, such as a misuse. okay so that one's on you 😭
• 127 — unable to execute program — not found. she's simply not there 🧚
• 126 — unable to execute program — other reason. she's there but something's off, vibe check failed 💔

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

s6-basename(1), s6-cat(1), s6-chmod(1), s6-chown(1), s6-clock(1), s6-cut(1), s6-dirname(1), s6-dumpenv(1), s6-echo(1), s6-env(1), s6-expr(1), s6-false(1), s6-format-filter(1), s6-grep(1), s6-head(1), s6-hiercopy(1), s6-linkname(1), s6-ln(1), s6-ls(1), s6-maximumtime(1), s6-mkfifo(1), s6-nice(1), s6-nuke(1), s6-pause(1), s6-printenv(1), s6-quote(1), s6-quote-filter(1), s6-rename(1), s6-rmrf(1), s6-seq(1), s6-sleep(1), s6-sort(1), s6-sync(1), s6-tai64ndiff(1), s6-tail(1), s6-touch(1), s6-true(1), s6-uniquename(1), s6-unquote(1), s6-unquote-filter(1), s6-update-symlinks(1), seekablepipe(1)

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/mkdir.html

this man page is ported from the authoritative documentation at: https://skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils/s6-mkdir.html

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👑 STANDARDS 👑

s6-mkdir is suitable as a mkdir[1] program conforming to .

(yes, that sentence really does just end there in the original, no i'm not going to invent the missing bit for you 💀)

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

• Laurent Bercot
• Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> (man page port)

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and that's the whole page bestie, slay 🌈 — brought to you by Debian, dated April 18, 2022, in the S6-MKDIR(1) era of the General Commands Manual. go forth and make some directories 🎀✨