umask not functioning with cp command

Alan A alan.zg at gmail.com
Wed Jun 23 15:12:11 UTC 2010


Copy with -p switch - which will keep permissions.

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:31 AM, James Corteciano <james at linux-source.org>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> $ umask 0002
> $ mkdir test
> $ ls -ld test
> drwxrwxr-x 2 user user 4096 Jun 23 19:04 test/
>
> $ls -ld content
> drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Jun 23 19:29 content
>
> $ cp -r content test/
> $ls -ld test/content
> drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Jun 23 19:29 content
>
> My question is, how can I make content directory permission mode to 775 if
> I
> do cp inside the test directory?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> James
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