Copy permissions of entire directory tree 1

[neuralnode]

Hi All,

Here's the challenge:
I have two filesystem that are almost exact copies.
The only difference is that one filesystem has correct permissions on directories and files, while the other doesn't.

What I want to do is to copy all permissions from filesystem (directory tree) A to filesystem B.
I cannot copy the files/dirs themselves becuase some files on the filesystem B have already changed, and cannot be rolled back.

So I need a bash/awk/sed script that will do it with permissions only.

Would you have some ready answer for this?

Thanx in advance!

 

[feherke]

Hi

You say, Bash would be good, so I suppose you have other GNU tools too. See thread822-1146704 for a [tt]stat[/tt] based solution. If [tt]stat[/tt] is not available see thread822-1280463 where we discussed about extracting permissions from [tt]ls -l[/tt] output and making them suitable to be used as parameter for [tt]chmod[/tt].


Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[neuralnode]

Thanx, the thread has indeed answered my question!

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