Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <428BA6E2.70B95230@dessent.net> Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 13:34:42 -0700 From: Brian Dessent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: create new file from bash: with DACL, owner, & group as windows would References: <200505182013.j4IKDBcF012257@tigris.pounder.sol.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com cygwin@trodman.com wrote: > I like and depend on NTSEC, but sometimes I want pure windows behavior. > > How can I create a new file from the bash prompt without umask being > honored- what I want is a script to create a new empty file, > so the DACL, owner & group will be exactly what a user would > get by running the below from a simple DOS prompt: > > echo.>foo > > The closest I've come from the bash prompt is: > > $ cmd /c 'echo.>foo' I think you're overcomplicating it...How about: $ CYGWIN=nontsec touch foo Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/