How the mkdir command works in Linux

mkdir -p foo/bar/baz/quizz will create any missing directories in the path (as long as you have write permissions in the parent directory)

We use mkdir to make a new directory from the terminal. To do this, open up a new terminal, and make sure you're in the right directory using the cd command.

The command will create all the directories necessaries to fulfill your request, not returning any error in case that directory exists.

This -p flag allows a parent folder to be created along with the nested folder. For example: mkdir directory/nested_directory. it would return ...

With -p you can do it in one line: mkdir -p documents/priority/tests and it will create the whole directory tree if any parts of it are missing.

The '-p' option allows you to create a directory hierarchy, including parent directories that don't exist. It prevents errors if the specified ...

-p 旗標會建立/home、/home/demo 及/home/demo/sub2 目錄（如果這些目錄不存在的話）。 請參閱Commands Reference, Volume 3 中的mkdir 指令，以取得完整語法。

-p, Creates missing intermediate path name directories. If the -p flag is not specified, the parent directory of each-newly created directory must already exist ...

With the help of mkdir -p command you can create sub-directories of a directory. It will create parent directory first, if it doesn't exist.