There are a few dark corners, e.g. mkdir dir chmod a-x dir mkdir -p dir Will not give you the permissions on dir that you want, typically. I've come

There are a few dark corners, e.g. mkdir dir chmod a-x dir mkdir -p dir Will not give you the permissions on dir that you want, typically. I've come to the idea that the best thing to guarantee what you want is mkdir the-new-dir.temp-jnsjw23 <do things to the-new-dir.temp-jnsjw23> rsync -a --delete the-new-dir.temp-jnsjw23 the-new-dir