On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 08:58 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > that's ok, it was only an issue because of the incredibly hacky way > that a numeric mode was being reproduced from an existing file -- by > grabbing the current symbolic mode, then running it through sed to get > the numeric mode back. yuck. > > as someone noted here earlier, using "stat" is way simpler.
If you just need to propagate permissions from one path name to another you can use chmod directly: chmod --reference=/path/to/source /path/to/dest Regards, Bryn. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
