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The mkdir (m a k e dir ectory) command in the Unix, DOS, DR FlexOS,1 IBM OS/2,2 Microsoft Windows, and ReactOS3 operating systems is used to make a new directory. It is also available in the EFI shell4 and in the PHP scripting language. In DOS, OS/2, Windows and ReactOS, the command is often abbreviated to **md**.

The command is analogous to the Stratus OpenVOS create_dir command.5 MetaComCo TRIPOS and AmigaDOS provide a similar MakeDir command to create new directories.67 The numerical computing environments MATLAB and GNU Octave include an mkdir function with similar functionality.89

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Footnotes

  1. “Users guide” (PDF). bitsavers.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-09-25. Retrieved 2019-10-22. ↩

  2. “JaTomes Help - OS/2 Commands”. www.jatomes.com. Archived from the original on 2019-04-14. Retrieved 2019-07-23. ↩

  3. “GitHub - reactos/reactos: A free Windows-compatible Operating System”. October 22, 2019. Archived from the original on December 11, 2017. Retrieved July 23, 2019 – via GitHub. ↩

  4. “EFI Shells and Scripting”. Intel. Archived from the original on 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2013-09-25. ↩

  5. “Reference manual” (PDF). stratadoc.stratus.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-09-22. Retrieved 2019-10-22. ↩

  6. “Introduction to Tripos” (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-10-21. Retrieved 2019-10-22. ↩

  7. Rügheimer, Hannes; Spanik, Christian (October 22, 1988). AmigaDOS quick reference. Grand Rapids, Mi: Abacus. ISBN 9781557550491 – via Internet Archive. ↩

  8. “Make new folder - MATLAB mkdir”. www.mathworks.com. Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2019-04-06. ↩

  9. “Function Reference: mkdir”. octave.sourceforge.io. ↩