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mkdir: feature request --reference

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Shaun Jackman <sjackman <at> bcgsc.ca>
Cc: "8749 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <8749 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
Subject: bug#8749: mkdir: feature request --reference
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.

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