On 06/08/2021 00:30, David wrote: > On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 at 06:03, Gary L. Roach <garyroach...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Second, why am I separating out the Path the way I am doing? I need to >> check each level for existence then, if the level doesn't exist, create >> the directory, cd to the directory, set chown and -x chmod. After that >> check the next level and repeat the process until I run out of levels. >> There are other things that need to be done with files that are similar. > It sounds like you are unaware of 'mkdir -p' and 'chown -R'. > They are the standard tools for this kind of task. > > 'chmod -R' is less useful because it does not discriminate > between files and directories, I never understood why it > does not offer that option, because usually we need all file > permissions to not be the same as all directory permissions.
I also recently discovered that 'mkdir' has a '-m, --mode' option so that, depending on your use case, you might not even need chmod. 'mkdir -m u=rwx,g=rx,o= -p /path/to/somewhere' for example. >
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