Bob Proulx wrote: > I generally dislike combining the functionality of several different > commands into one command. In this case combining mkdir and chmod and > I don't see any reason they can't be used individually. Plus mkdir > already allows you to create directories with a specified permission > and this is feature creep into the area of the 'install' command which > also already allows creating directories of specified permissions.
well, 'mkdir --reference=file' could be the sister of 'touch -r file', so creating a directory with both the perms and the timestamps of the reference file/directory. I don't know when 'touch' has been enhanced for '--reference' but wasn't it the same question then? Have a nice day, Berny
