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I need to give permission to a directory in such a way that, the newly created files should inherit the same permissions as the directory.

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You could assign a group ownership to a parent folder and then make inside files inherit properties.

Assigning group ownership could be set by

sudo chmod -R 660 /path/to/parent
sudo chown -R myself:somegroup /path/to/parent

The group ownership can be inherited by new files and folders created in your folder /path/to/parent by setting the setgid bit using chmod g+s like this:

chmod g+s /path/to/parent

Now, all new files and folder created under /path/to/parent will have the same group assigned as is set on /path/to/parent.

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The person who posted that didn't clearly understand what they were doing. myself:somegroup is something you use with chown, and 660 with chmod. You can't mix one with the other. – muru Jun 29 '15 at 10:38
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@muru : Correct...! The following command did work... <sudo chmod -R 777 /path/to/directory> but newly created files are not inheritting the permissions. Whenever running the commands, they are getting altered.... – kiran bbnl Jun 29 '15 at 13:59

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