From: Andreas Reschke <Andreas.Reschke at behrgroup.com> >> James Corteciano <james at linux-source.org> >> $ 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? > in this case, you must copy with cp -p (or better > -a same -dpR) to preserve all atributes. > man cp -p preserves the source permissions... In this case, he wants the target directory to inherit its permissions from its parent... And I think Unix doesn't support the idea of inherited permissions (except for the sgid bit). Is running a simple 'chmod 775 test/content', after the cp, not an option...? JD