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How To Create New Directory / Folder In Linux
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Introduction to make new directoryIn this post we will learn, how to create new directory in a Linux system. To create a new directory in a Linux system we will use the command called |
To create a directory in Linux
Use the below given command to create single directory in current path Syntax:mkdir dir-name
To create multiple directory in Linux
Use the below given command to create multiple directories in current path. Syntax:mkdir dir-name1 dir-name2 dir-name4 dir-nameN
Create a directory inside existing/non existing parent directory
In case you want to create a directory inside other directory, we will use-p
option with mkdir command.
Even if the parent directory does not exist, we use -p
option with mkdir command to create a new directory tree.
Syntax:
mkdir -p dir1/dir2/dir3/MORE-dirExample In this case, we have already have a existing directory called DIR1 and we will create new directory inside DIR1 named test1 and test2 . Here , the directory tree structure will look like this DIR1/test1/test2 We will use the command
mkdir -p DIR1/test1/test2
Assigning permission while creating new directory
We can assign permission while creating a new directory. For this we will use -m option with mkdir command Syntax:mkdir -m PERMISSION-SET directory-nameExample : We will create a directory called orange with permission 400 (Read to Owner only)
test@localhost:~$ mkdir -m 400 orange test@localhost:~$ ls -ld orange/ dr-------- 2 test test 4096 Mar 14 18:00 orange/ test@localhost:~$
Tags: Linux, Folder, mkdir, New Directory
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