copy group permission to other permission

[hokky]

Hi guys,

Just wondering is there any way to copy the group permissions to the other permissions ?

I don't want to set it manually through chmod. Because the files are too many and the permissions is different for the files.

Thanks guys,

 

[tCarls]

Here's a bash script that seems to work.

#!/bin/sh
for file in ${@}; do
        r=`ls -l $file | cut -c5`
        w=`ls -l $file | cut -c6`
        x=`ls -l $file | cut -c7`

        if [[ $r == "r" ]]; then
                chmod a+r $file
        else
                chmod a-r $file
        fi

        if [[ $w == "w" ]]; then
                chmod a+w $file
        else
                chmod a-w $file
        fi

        if [[ $x == "x" ]]; then
                chmod a+x $file
        else
                chmod a-x $file
        fi
done

 

[PHV]

Typed, untested:
for file; do chmod a=$(ls -ld $file | cut -c5-7) $file; done

Hope This Helps, PH.
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