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-rw-r--r--bin/mkdir/mkdir.12
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/bin/mkdir/mkdir.1 b/bin/mkdir/mkdir.1
index 54d9fac..82ca4e5 100644
--- a/bin/mkdir/mkdir.1
+++ b/bin/mkdir/mkdir.1
@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ are interpreted relative to an initial mode of
Create intermediate directories as required.
If this option is not specified, the full path prefix of each
operand must already exist.
+On the other hand, with this option specified, no error will
+be reported if a directory given as an operand already exists.
Intermediate directories are created with permission bits of
.Li rwxrwxrwx (\&0777)
as modified by the current umask, plus write and search
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