Re: Creating directories with sticky bit set

[Angel Tsankov]

Greg Wooledge wrote:
> If you only ever create directories from interactive shells with
> the "mkdir" command, you could override it with a function:
>
> mkdir() {
>  command mkdir "$@" &&
>  chmod +t "$@"
> }
>
> (In reality you'd want to process function arguments, and remove for
> example a "-p" option before passing them along to chmod.  I'll leave
> that part as an exercise.)
>
Let's say that removing '-p' is straightforward, but what about setting the 
sticky bit to every newly created directory component?

Regards,
Angel Tsankov