coreutils: Copying Permissions

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1 27.2.2 Copying Existing Permissions
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1 You can base a file’s permissions on its existing permissions.  To do
1 this, instead of using a series of ‘r’, ‘w’, or ‘x’ letters after the
1 operator, you use the letter ‘u’, ‘g’, or ‘o’.  For example, the mode
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1      o+g
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1 adds the permissions for users who are in a file’s group to the
1 permissions that other users have for the file.  Thus, if the file
1 started out as mode 664 (‘rw-rw-r--’), the above mode would change it to
1 mode 666 (‘rw-rw-rw-’).  If the file had started out as mode 741
1 (‘rwxr----x’), the above mode would change it to mode 745 (‘rwxr--r-x’).
1 The ‘-’ and ‘=’ operations work analogously.
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