Re: files:

[Luke A. Kanies]

On Fri, 14 May 2004, Mike wrote:

> I get what to set for individual files or directories, but
> when specifying r=inf for a directory and I want to make
> sure all permissions are set below I think it would be
> easier to use a umask=002 or umask=022 instead of m=go+rx.
> How do you specify something that is workable for both
> files and directories when doing r=inf?

The 'files' action automatically adds execute bits to directories that 
have read bits, which is usually the behaviour that you want.

I have had inconsistent results with this on the 'copy' action, but it 
always works great in 'files'.

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