[C.J. Moof]

Since "man ditto" tells me this:
"ditto overwrites existing files, symbolic links, and devices in the destination when these are copied from a source. The resulting files, links, and devices will have the same mode, owner, and group as the source items from which they are copied."


Then why do I get this?:

Code:
[millivanilli:~/Desktop] syuroff% ls -al PDFs\ to\ read/
total 18984
drwxr-xr-x   8 syuroff   staff        272 Mar 27 21:31 .
drwx------  15 syuroff   staff        510 Apr 22 12:20 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 thg       mail      227470 Feb 13 09:29 BuildingABetterBackButton.pdf
drwxr-xr-x   5 syuroff   staff        170 Mar 21 10:43 PGPrivacy 800-F-X
-rw-r--r--   1 teddybea  staff     105025 Mar 27 09:35 Qubux Antivirus Data sheet.pdf
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody    unknown  1252937 Mar  8 16:31 Vanguard Roth Conversion kit.pdf
-rw-r--r--   1 teddybea  staff    3409277 Oct 29 10:27 webpagesthatsuck.pdf
-rw-r--r--   1 thg       jabber   4715620 Mar 10 23:11 xvsxp.pdf
[millivanilli:~/Desktop] syuroff% ditto PDFs\ to\ read/ PDF2
[millivanilli:~/Desktop] syuroff% ls -al PDF2
total 18984
drwxr-xr-x   8 syuroff  staff      272 Mar 27 21:31 .
drwx------  16 syuroff  staff      544 Apr 22 12:23 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 syuroff  staff   227470 Feb 13 09:29 BuildingABetterBackButton.pdf
drwxr-xr-x   5 syuroff  staff      170 Mar 21 10:43 PGPrivacy 800-F-X
-rw-r--r--   1 syuroff  staff   105025 Mar 27 09:35 Qubux Antivirus Data sheet.pdf
-rw-r--r--   1 syuroff  staff  1252937 Mar  8 16:31 Vanguard Roth Conversion kit.pdf
-rw-r--r--   1 syuroff  staff  3409277 Oct 29 10:27 webpagesthatsuck.pdf
-rw-r--r--   1 syuroff  staff  4715620 Mar 10 23:11 xvsxp.pdf
[millivanilli:~/Desktop] syuroff%

First time around, my .pdf files have various owners and groups. Ditto them, and they're all owned by me. That sure doesn't seem like the same mode, owner and group to me.....

What don't I get?

[C.J. Moof]

Answered my own question. Well, kinda.

The trick is to "sudo ditto" and then do stuff. I don't get why, but it works....