createDirectory is:exact

createDirectory dir creates a new directory dir which is initially empty, or as near to empty as the operating system allows. The operation may fail with:

• isPermissionError The process has insufficient privileges to perform the operation. [EROFS, EACCES]
• isAlreadyExistsError The operand refers to a directory that already exists. [EEXIST]
• HardwareFault A physical I/O error has occurred. [EIO]
• InvalidArgument The operand is not a valid directory name. [ENAMETOOLONG, ELOOP]
• isDoesNotExistError There is no path to the directory. [ENOENT, ENOTDIR]
• isFullError Insufficient resources (virtual memory, process file descriptors, physical disk space, etc.) are available to perform the operation. [EDQUOT, ENOSPC, ENOMEM, EMLINK]
• InappropriateType The path refers to an existing non-directory object. [EEXIST]

createDirectory dir creates a new directory dir which is initially empty, or as near to empty as the operating system allows. The operation may fail with:

• isPermissionError The process has insufficient privileges to perform the operation. [EROFS, EACCES]
• isAlreadyExistsError The operand refers to a directory that already exists. [EEXIST]
• HardwareFault A physical I/O error has occurred. [EIO]
• InvalidArgument The operand is not a valid directory name. [ENAMETOOLONG, ELOOP]
• isDoesNotExistError There is no path to the directory. [ENOENT, ENOTDIR]
• isFullError Insufficient resources (virtual memory, process file descriptors, physical disk space, etc.) are available to perform the operation. [EDQUOT, ENOSPC, ENOMEM, EMLINK]
• InappropriateType The path refers to an existing non-directory object. [EEXIST]

createDirectory dir mode calls mkdir to create a new directory, dir, with permissions based on mode.

createDirectory dir mode calls mkdir to create a new directory, dir, with permissions based on mode.

createDirectory dir mode calls mkdir to create a new directory, dir, with permissions based on mode.

Lifted createDirectory.

Create a directory at a given path. The user may choose whether it is an error for a directory to already exist at that path. This computation throws IOError on failure. See “Classifying I/O errors” in the System.IO.Error documentation for information on why the failure occured.

Create a new directory.

ghci> createDirectory "/tmp/mydir"
ghci> getDirectoryFiles "/tmp/mydir"
[".",".."]
ghci> createDirectory "/tmp/mydir/anotherdir"
ghci> getDirectoryFiles "/tmp/mydir"
[".","..","anotherdir"]

Creates (recursively if necessary) the specified directory. Errors can be caught using onError. You should always specify an absolute path.

createDirectory "$INSTDIR/some/directory"

Create a directory