Creating a Folder

Function

You can use this command to create a folder in a specified bucket or local file system.

No error is returned if a folder with the same name as an existing one is created, and the content of the existing folder remain unchanged.

Command Line Structure

In Windows

Creating a folder in a specified bucket

obsutil mkdir obs://bucket/folder[/subfolder1/subfolder2] [-config=xxx]

Creating a folder in the local file system
```
obsutil mkdir folder_url [-config=xxx] 
```

In Linux or macOS

Creating a folder in a specified bucket

./obsutil mkdir obs://bucket/folder[/subfolder1/subfolder2] [-config=xxx]

Creating a folder in the local file system

./obsutil mkdir folder_url [-config=xxx]

Examples

Take the Windows OS as an example. Run the obsutil mkdir obs://bucket-test/folder1/folder2 command to create a folder in a bucket.

obsutil mkdir obs://bucket-test/folder1/folder2

Create folder [obs://bucket-test/folder1/] successfully, request id [0000016979E1D23C860BB3D8E4577C5E]
Create folder [obs://bucket-test/folder1/folder2] successfully, request id [0000016979E1D2B2860BB5181229C72C]

Parameter Description

Parameter	Optional or Mandatory	Description
bucket	Mandatory when creating a folder in a specified bucket	Bucket name
folder	Mandatory when creating a folder in a specified bucket	Folder path in the bucket. This value can contain multi-level folders. Separate each level with a slash (/).
folder_url	Mandatory when creating a folder in the local file system	Folder path in the local file system. The value can be an absolute path or a relative path.
config	Optional (additional parameter)	User-defined configuration file for executing a command. For details about parameters that can be configured, see Parameter Description.