force file attributes

[A.J. Bonnema]

Micheal wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 00:43, A.J. Bonnema wrote:
> 
>>Micheal wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 00:10, A.J. Bonnema wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>How can I force a copied file to always have u+w on? Is it one of the 
>>>>sticky bits or is it just not possible?
>>>>
>>>>Asking this because often cd's have the w-bit off which can be quite 
>>>>annoying, because I have to change the w-bit on with chmod afterward.
>>>>btw I use mc to copy files (usually).
>>>>I run an updated FC2 system.
>>>>
>>>>Guus.
>>>>
>>>>-- 
>>>>A.J. Bonnema, Leiden The Netherlands,
>>>>user #328198 (Linux Counter http://counter.li.org)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Via the great "man cp" ... 
>>>
>>>-p     same as --preserve= mode, ownership,
>>>timestamps                                                                                
>>>--preserve[=ATTR_LIST] preserve   the   specified   attributes  
>>>(default:  mode,owner-ship,timestamps) and security contexts, if 
>>>possible  additional attributes: links, all
>>>
>>>This should do it for you
>>>
>>>HTH 
>>>
>>>Micheal
>>>
>>
>>Hi Michael,
>>
>>Thanks for you answer, but I need the opposite. I want the write 
>>attribute to be set even if the original file does not have the write 
>>attibute set, depending on the target directory.
>>
>>Possible?
>>
>>Guus.
>>-- 
>>A.J. Bonnema, Leiden The Netherlands,
>>user #328198 (Linux Counter http://counter.li.org)
> 
> 
> A.J
> 
> Sorry about that, Its late here in the US... 
> 
> I don't think there is going to be a one stop shop for that.  I tried
> googling but no luck there.
> 
> You "could" write a bash script to copy the file and chmod +w it, that
> might save you a few keystrokes.
> 
> Other than that I'm out of ideas
> 
> Micheal
> 

Ok, thanks for the effort, I suspected as much. I hoped there would be 
some sticky bit (of which I still don't completely grasp the 
functionality) that solved this....

I was wondering whether umask could do the job, but man umask is too 
cryptic for me. I'll see if the ref guide of rh9 has any answers.

Guus.
-- 
A.J. Bonnema, Leiden The Netherlands,
user #328198 (Linux Counter http://counter.li.org)