Subject: Re: bug#8749: mkdir: feature request --reference

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 13:06:32 -0700

On 05/31/11 11:12, Shaun Jackman wrote:

> My use case is working in a directory shared amongst a group of users.
> My umask is 022. I run
> mkdir -pm775 project/subproject

You're typing stuff like that by hand?  I'd expect that sort of
thing to be in a script.  Either way, you can do this instead:

(umask g+w; mkdir -p project/subproject)

This is portable and doesn't require any changes to mkdir.