[ale] Umask by directory?

Steve Tynor stevejunk at iintiip.com
Thu Jul 26 17:34:21 EDT 2007


That's standard "brace expansion".  This has been available since the 
early bourne shell, but here's the doc for bash:

    http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#SEC27

Steve

On 7/26/2007 5:29 PM, John Wells wrote:
> ----- "greg freemyer" <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ACLs
>>
>> I assisted in writing a Howto smilar to what you need on
>> wiki.opnsuse.org  (iirc).
>>
>> Just search for acl or acls.
> 
> Great...thanks!
> 
> Btw, in one tutorial, interesting syntax:
> 
> mkdir -p /sharedir/{sales,finance}
> 
> Didn't realize you could group directories with {} and have them expanded properly. Is this a shell feature? Can anyone explain.
> 
> I appreciate it.
> 
> John
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