Hello...<br><br>If we forget about the lessons of Y2K, today&#39;s date in the MM/DD/YY<br>format is 07/07/07.&nbsp; The date reminded me that 777 (octal) are the<br>default permissions assigned to newly created Unix directories.
<br>These default permissions worked well in the early days of Unix,<br>but today they are usually morphed by SysAdmins to be more<br>restrictive.&nbsp; Anyfoo... having fun with the bash command-line.<br><br>$ mkdir foo<br>$ ls -l
<br>drwx------&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2 gdt&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; users&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4096 Jul&nbsp; 7 11:34 foo<br><br>$ chmod $(date &#39;+%1m%1d%1y&#39;) foo<br>$ ls -l<br>drwxrwxrwx&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2 gdt&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; users&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4096 Jul&nbsp; 7 11:35 foo<br><br>