On Friday September 15th 2006 10:32 Jim Meyering wrote: > Roland Eggner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > install -m a-x SOURCE DEST > > install -m a-X SOURCE DEST > > both commands reset ALL bits like "chmod 000 DEST", should ONLY reset > > executable bits! > > Thanks for the report, but install has always worked that way. > That is the documented and long-accepted behavior. > In "info coreutils install", you can read that the starting > point for "relative" modes like "a-x" is 000, or "a=": > > `-m MODE' > `--mode=MODE' > Set the permissions for the installed file or directory to MODE, > which can be either an octal number, or a symbolic mode as in > `chmod', with `a=' (no access allowed to anyone) as the point of > departure (*note File permissions::). The default mode is > `u=rwx,go=rx'--read, write, and execute for the owner, and read > and execute for group and other. > Thanks for your kind reply. In future I will try to read documentation more carefully .. meaning of "departure" was not clear enought for me, my knowledge of the english language is incomplete, beg pardon.
I notice, in contrast to cp - install NEVER uses permissions of SOURCE, - install NEVER uses UMASK. Safty first.. Feature request: Option -D (cannot find it in "info coreutils install") allows creating of directories and a file with a single statement. If DEST is not an executable, we will likely want different permissions of created directories and the created file. What about an additional option -M to install: "install -D -m MODEofFILE -M MODEofDIRECTORIES SOURCE DEST"? -- Roland Eggner A-8020 Graz, Vinzenzgasse 36 Telefon 0043-316-58 66 48 Wer seinen Computer einrichtet, hat die Qual der Wahl: Das Computer-Betriebs- und -Bremssystem einer amerikanischen Fensterfirma? Oder ein Betriebssystem wie Linux, dessen Zuverlässigkeit und Effizienz Internetnutzer jeden Tag erleben, zum Beispiel mit Google und mit Yahoo? _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
