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.
