How to Make Directories with mkdir Command and Set Permissions on Linux

Directories are used to store other directories or files in Linux. We can use the mkdir command to make a directory.

How to Make Directory with mkdir Command

We can use the mkdir command to make a directory. The directory name is given to the commanddir as a parameter.

$ mkdir database

How to Make Multiple Directories

We can make multiple directories using the mkdir command. Every directory name is provided as a parameter. The directory names are separated by spaces.

$ mkdir database users backups

If the directory names contain spaces double quotes .

$ mkdir "my database" "my users" "our backups"

How to Make Parent and Child Directories

We can make multi-level directories or parent-child directories with the mkdir command .

$ mkdir -p database/mysql/current/

How to Make a Directory and Set Permissions

The -m option is used to specify permissions.

$ mkdir -m 722 backup