MKDIR(1)

📦 version 1.053, in alpine 3.24

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, welcome to MKDIR(1) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation ✨ — this is the page for mkdir, and it creates directories. That’s the name vibe: mkdir — create directories. Periodt 💅. This page has main character energy for a directory command, ngl.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

literally the whole usage:

mkdir [-p] [-m mode] directory ...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

mkdir creates directories, giving them permission 0777 — as modified by your current umask, bestie, don’t forget that part 💅. It’s giving orderly behavior too: directories are created in the order they are given. No cap.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

mkdir accepts the options described below. There are two, so this is a quick vibe check 🫶.

  • -p — create any required intermediate directories. Those intermediate cuties get created with permission 0777, as modified by the current umask. Plus, the write and execute bits for the owner of the directory will be set. If -p is given, existing directories will not trigger an error — they just vibe, no drama 🌈.
  • -m mode — create the directory with permissions as indicated by mode. mode can be of any form accepted by chmod(1). Symbolic modes are relative to an initial mode of a=rwx. Iconic ✨.

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

The working of mkdir is not influenced by any environment variables. Not a single one. Env vars could never, iykyk 💀.

💀 BUGS 💀

mkdir does not have any known bugs. That’s the whole section. No known bugs — lowkey flawless behavior, and honestly that’s highkey iconic 👑.

⭐ STANDARDS ⭐

This implementation of mkdir is compatible with the OpenBSD implementation, and is expected to be compatible with the IEEE Std1003.2 aka POSIX.2 implementation. Slay, standards bestie ✨.

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

The Perl implementation of mkdir was written by Abigail, perlpowertools@abigail.be — the way that she did that? obsessed 👑.

This program is copyright by Abigail 1999.

This program is free and open software. You may use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this program (and any modified variants) in any way you wish, provided you do not restrict others from doing the same. Legal bestie says: the only catch is don’t block anyone else from doing the same 🫶.

okay that’s the whole page, bestie 💖 — it’s from perl v5.42.2, dated 2026-02-15, and filed under MKDIR(1). Now go make some directories, but like, responsibly ✨

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