> From: Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:01:50 -0700
> >is there some command you can issue after the mkdir but before the > >touch, which will fix the problem? > > I'm not sure. Could chgrp the file in /tmp before moving, I suppose, but > is that portable? We can ignore the error if it is not. E.g., something like this? tmp=$TMPDIR/cs123456 (umask 077 && mkdir $tmp) || exit (set X`ls -dln` && chgrp $4 $tmp) 2>/dev/null touch $tmp/foo mv $tmp/foo .