copy permission ( mode ) of a folder

byran cheung · 11-04-2014, 09:16 PM

I have a directory in linux server , its directory permission ( mode ) is drwxrwx---+ , I want to create a directory its mode is the same as this directory , would advise how to copy the mode but not copy anything in the directory ? thanks

I tried , cp -p -r dir dir , but it copy all sub-directory also .

rknichols · 11-04-2014, 10:17 PM

rsync with the "-d" option can do that. Be sure not to include a trailing "/" on the source directory name.

Code:

$ rsync -d ~/Desktop /var/tmp
$ ls -la /var/tmp/Desktop
total 24
drwxr-xr-x. 2 rknichols rknichols  4096 2014-11-04 22:16 .
drwxrwxrwt. 4 root      root      20480 2014-11-04 22:16 ..
$