Hi all,

I'm still new to Perl so please don't laugh if this is a dumb question.

I want to create a directory and give it the same permissions as its parent. This does not seem to happen by default, so my idea was to read out the parent folder's permissions with stat and supply these to mkdir. My code looks like this 
my $dir = "/home/me/perl-stuff/";
my $mode_long = (stat($dir))[2];
my $mode = sprintf("%o", ($mode_long&07777));
my $oct_mode = '0'.$mode;
my $oct = oct($oct_mode);
$dir .= "test";
my $x = umask;
umask 0000;
mkdir ($dir,$oct);
umask $x;

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This works and has the desired effect, but I can't shake the feeling that there must be an easier way to do this. Or at least a shorter one. Obviously handling these octal numbers keeps confusing me.

thanks,
Alex

In reply to mkdir with variable mask by kreetrapper

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