Well, I think, you could consider to use chmod directly after successful creation of the new directory.

untested quickshot of my thoughts:

#! /usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
# added:
use File::Spec::Functions qw( catdir );

my $dir = '/home/me/perl-stuff/";
my $mode = (stat $dir)[2];

# better use File::Spec::catfile
#$dir .= 'testdir';
$dir = catdir( $dir, 'testdir' );

mkdir( $dir, $mode ) or die "$!\n"; # update2: $mode added
chmod( $mode, $dir ) or die "$!\n";

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updates

  1. code example updated, because I did some testing.
  2. Considered ikegami's reply...
  3. strike-tags adjusted
  4. catfile replaced with catdir; thanks kreetrapper

In reply to Re: mkdir with variable mask by linuxer
in thread mkdir with variable mask by kreetrapper

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