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I have a directory owned by root, after I copy files into it. All exe files can only be run as root. But I would like everyone to be able to run it. Surely, I can use chmod -R u=rwX,g=rX,o=rX every time after I add new files into it. However, this is very annoying. Is there any thing I can set in the directory to automatically allow all users to run the exe?

Christopher
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Using umask 0022 before making the copy, you will get all new files with -rw-r--r-- permissions by default, but files can be made executable only invoking directly chmod +x on them.

You can use the abbreviated command: chmod -R a+rX directory to do it manually.

To automatically set all file permissions you can use inotifywait like that:

inotifywait -qm <directory> -e create -e moved_to -e modify \
 | while read a b c; do chmod a+rX "${a}${c}"; done
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