Basic Linux configuration | Creating directories

Directory is a folder which contains various files or another directories. You will be in need to create directory at least once during your Linux-usage period. All in all, it is not so different from command prompt in Windows, the command remains the same, but there are few additional (optional) parameters that we can use.

If you type man mkdir in your Linux CLI, you will get the following output:

NAME
       mkdir - make directories

SYNOPSIS
       mkdir [OPTION] DIRECTORY...

DESCRIPTION
       Create the DIRECTORY(ies), if they do not already exist.

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -m, --mode=MODE
              set file mode (as in chmod), not a=rwx - umask

       -p, --parents
              no error if existing, make parent directories as needed

       -v, --verbose
              print a message for each created directory

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
              output version information and exit
 

The simplest usage of command would be:

neven@squeez:~$mkdir my_folder 
 

This would create directory with name my_folder.

If we wanted to create directory my_folder with some predefined permissions, we 

would use:

neven@squeez:~$mkdir --mode=550 my_folder  
 

This would create my_folder directory with following permissions:

neven@squeez:~$ls -l
dr-xr-x---  2 neven neven      4096 2012-03-07 15:45 my_folder

 

In next part of tutorial, we'll show you few more tricks for creating directories.