Neither project nor project/src exists yet. Type the complete command that creates the directory project/src/main in a single invocation, creating the missing parent directories as needed.
LPIC-1 Exam 101-500, objective 103. GNU and Unix commands easy
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Answer
Type the answer.
Accepted answers
mkdir -p project/src/mainmkdir --parents project/src/main
Case sensitive — Linux is, and grading LS as ls would teach a falsehood.
Why
mkdir -p creates every missing component of the path and, usefully in scripts, exits successfully if the directory already exists instead of reporting an error. -m sets the permissions of the new directory directly, e.g. mkdir -m 700 private.
Where this comes from
- Cited
- LPI exam objective 103.3
- What it says
- Create directories, including whole directory trees at once.
Practise this
Reading one question is not practice. The trainer will draw a set from objective 103 and space the ones you get wrong.