Re: Is there a way to inherent the permissions related with o from the parent directory?

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 03/17/2015 11:42 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way to inherent the permissions related with o from the parent?
> 
> For example, if the parent has the permission --- for o, when I mkdir
> a subdirectory, I want to subdirectory also has the permission --- for
> o. Is possible to somehow chmod of parent to allow this to happen?

You can e.g. set the permissions - all, i.e. not only for 'other' - with:

  $ chmod --reference='.' DIR

Or, if you know the mode beforehand, you could tell mkdir(1) to use that
rather than the default (a=rwx minus umask):

  $ mkdir --mode="$MODE" DIR

Getting only the 'other' access rights from the parent - using something
like `stat -c '%a' '.'`  or  `stat -c '%A' '.'`, and then parsing the
output - is awkward and prone to errors, because neither the numerical
form from '%a' nor the readable form from '%A' seem to have a stable-
formatted output.

Have a nice day,
Berny