Hello, > I LOOK FOR A COMMAND THAT SETS THE PERMISSIONS OF ONE FILE LIKE THE > PERMISSIONS > OF ANOTHER FILE.
Oh please don't shout. > This is analogous to the touch command that sets the timestamps of one file > like another file, > touch -r file-template file-target OK, I did apropos mode, and kpsestat seems to do the missing bit of functionality. The command you want is (note the backticks): chmod `kpsestat = file-template` file-target Then I checked what package it's in, and stopped being surprised that you didn't find it. kpsestat is in tetex-bin HTH Jiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>