Usage: mkdir [OPTION]... DIRECTORY... Create the DIRECTORY(ies), if they do not already exist. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -m, --mode=MODE set file mode (as in chmod), not a=rwx - umask -p, --parents no error if existing, make parent directories as needed, with their file modes unaffected by any -m option -v, --verbose print a message for each created directory -Z set SELinux security context of each created directory to the default type --context[=CTX] like -Z, or if CTX is specified then set the SELinux or SMACK security context to CTX --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit Report bugs to: . GNU coreutils home page: General help using GNU software: Full documentation or available locally via: info '(coreutils) mkdir invocation' mkdir: unrecognized option '--help/bin' Try 'mkdir --help' for more information. mkdir: unrecognized option '--help/conf' Try 'mkdir --help' for more information. mkdir: unrecognized option '--help/lib' Try 'mkdir --help' for more information. mkdir: unrecognized option '--help/logs' Try 'mkdir --help' for more information. mkdir: unrecognized option '--help/temp' Try 'mkdir --help' for more information. mkdir: unrecognized option '--help/webapps' Try 'mkdir --help' for more information. mkdir: unrecognized option '--help/work' Try 'mkdir --help' for more information. mkdir: unrecognized option '--help/webapps/ROOT' Try 'mkdir --help' for more information. Created CATALINA_BASE directory at --help You can launch the new instance by running: export CATALINA_HOME=/usr/share/tomee export CATALINA_BASE=--help $CATALINA_HOME/bin/catalina.sh run Attention: The ports in conf/server.xml might be bound by a different instance. Please review your config files and update them as necessary.