Creating Directories

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  • Essential Linux
    • The Unix File Structure
      • Creating Directories

To create a new directory as a sub-directory of your home directory, you issue the mkdir command. After you create a directory, you can move or copy files there, and also create sub-directories within it. For example, to create a sub-directory in your current working directory named projects, type:

% mkdir projects
% ls -F
myfile project/

The following diagram shows the resulting directory structure.

To create a new directory named 'stuff' under the projects directory, type

mkdir projects/stuff