tag 31675 notabug close 31675 stop On 31/05/18 20:50, Gunjan Gupta wrote: > Hi, > > Suppose I have the following directory structure > > / > | - destination (mode=0755) > | - dir (mode=0755) > | - file.txt (mode=0644) > | - source > | - dir (mode=0755) > | - file.txt (mode=0644) > > My user has a umask of 0077. Now if I run the following cp command > > cp -aR --no-preserve=mode /source/* /destination > > I think the mode of destination/dir should stay as 0755 but it changes to > 0700. Is this expected? > > I am using coreutils 8.26-3 on Debian Stretch
This is a little surprising as cp didn't create /destination/dir in this case. However if it did create that dir, then the mode would be expected. So cp is keeping the destination consistent whether it previously existed or not. cheers, Pádraig
