Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@xxxxxx> writes: > +# Get the modebits from a file or directory, ignoring the setgid bit (g+s). > +# This bit is inherited by subdirectories at their creation. So we remove it > +# from the returning string to prevent callers from having to worry about the > +# state of the bit in the test directory. > +# We probably do not use "chmod g+s" manually on regular files, so I may be being overly "correct", but shouldn't these be done only for directories? > test_modebits () { > - ls -ld "$1" | sed -e 's|^\(..........\).*|\1|' > + ls -ld "$1" | sed -e 's|^\(..........\).*|\1|' \ > + -e 's|^\(......\)S|\1-|' -e 's|^\(......\)s|\1x|' That is, -e 's|^\(d.....\)S|\1-|' -e 's|^\(d.....\)s|\1x|' instead of applying the rule to any filetype. Will queue as-is, as the distinction probably would not matter in practice. Thanks.