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I’ve been using cp -r to duplicate some things in my file system and something bizarre keeps happening…certain directories that are permissioned as 777 have more secure permissions in the target directories I am copying to.
Is this normal behavior?
cp -a might resolve your situation, you need to tell cp to preserve the permissions so that it doesn’t inherit them from your umask.