On 02/24/2012 11:05 AM, Ondrej Vasik wrote: > requester was fine with double zero 5+ octal digit > approach.
I expect the requester would also be fine with a leading-'@' approach. All the requester wanted was *some* solution. > 00755 is still octal digit (and easy to get with printf %5.5o > from shorter octal digit mode, and probably easy to use further in > scripts without modifications) Sorry, I don't follow. If I have a decimal mode 'mode' in a script, then this: chmod @$(printf %o $mode) DIR is easier and simpler than this: chmod $(printf %5.5o $mode) DIR The "5.5o" is tricky: Why *two* "5"s? and who can remember which "5" is really needed, and why, right off the bat? and remember why "5", and not "4" or "6"? The "@" is simple.
