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Russell Harmon edited this page Jan 8, 2016 · 5 revisions

mkdir -pm ignores -m for parent directories

Problematic code:

mkdir -p -m 0755 foo/bar/baz

Rationale:

When using -m 0755, the mode of the directory created will be set to 0755. When using -p, parent directories which do not exist will be created, but the mode specified by -m will only be used on the non-parent directory. The parent directories will get their access mode the default way, via umask(2).

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