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Perl mkdir Function
Description
This function makes a directory with the name and path EXPR using the mode specified by MODE, which should be supplied as an octal value for clarity.
Syntax
Following is the simple syntax for this function −
mkdir EXPR,MODE
Return Value
This function returns 0 on failure and 1 on success.
Example
Following is the example code showing its basic usage −
#!/usr/bin/perl -w $dirname ="/tmp/testdir"; mkdir $dirname, 0755;
When above code is executed, it produces the following result in /tmp directory −
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sept 08 11:55 testdir
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