On 04/27/2012 12:52 PM, Henrikki Almusa wrote: > Hi, > > I have a situation where I want to create with a script a directory path > based on input. The mkdir -p allows this nicely. However since I want to > enforce certain permissions on it I thought that I can use mkdir -pm<mode> to > create this. However it seems that when using both options, the parent > directories created won't get the --mode given, but instead use the default > mask. Is this intentional as I would think it as bug? > > $ mkdir -pm0700 baz/bar > $ ls -lhd baz/ baz/bar > drwxrwxr-x 3 [user] [group] 4.0K 2012-04-27 14:47 baz/ > drwx------ 2 [user] [group] 4.0K 2012-04-27 14:47 baz/bar > $ mkdir --version > mkdir (GNU coreutils) 8.5 > Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This was discussed previously: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2011-05/msg00071.html cheers, Pádraig.
