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From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca>
Cc: dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Change group ID in a shell script
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On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 04:51:28AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 03:54:26AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> > > No, I chgrp is not what I want.  I'm running rsync to mirror a
> > > directory over network, so rsync can potentially create a bunch of new
> > > files.
> > 
> > rsync -g?
> 
> Nope, this means "preserve group".  The remote group and local group
> names do not coinside.
> 
> I solved the problem by writing a Perl script instead of a shell
> script (using Perl's `setpgrp').  I would still like to know how I
> could do that in a shell script, though.

It does not seem like it would matter for your purposes. The group ID
of a newly created file has nothing to do with the group of the user
creating it (aside from possibly giving permissions to write the
file) on a BSD system.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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