bug#8736: chmod -p --parents

2011-05-27 Thread Erik Auerswald
Hi, On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:13:05PM +0200, francky.l...@telenet.be wrote: In the past, I was an advocate of the -p --parents option for mkdir. By now this is realised. Now I'm doing the same for chmod. [...] I want to be able to execute the following: chmod a+rx -p

bug#8749: mkdir: feature request --reference

2011-05-27 Thread Shaun Jackman
Hi, mkdir has an option -m to set the permission mode of the directory. I would find it useful for mkdir to have a --reference=FILE option that works identically to chmod. My primary use case for this feature is to create a shell alias: alias mkdir='mkdir --reference=.' so that in