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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users script to recursively change permissions on file and dirs differently? Post 302380943 by Scott on Wednesday 16th of December 2009 05:31:20 PM
Old 12-16-2009
Thank you Smilie

I don't doubt you - I never would, and my umask analysis (although wrong) looked that way because of the files in my directory at the time that didn't seem to change.

I did a wee test:

Code:
$ cd Test
$ touch a b c
$ ll
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  5 scott  staff  170 Dec 16 23:18 .
drwxr-xr-x  8 scott  staff  272 Dec 16 23:12 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 scott  staff    0 Dec 16 23:18 a
-rw-r--r--  1 scott  staff    0 Dec 16 23:18 b
-rw-r--r--  1 scott  staff    0 Dec 16 23:18 c
$ chmod 000 a
$ chmod 777 . c
$ ll
total 0
drwxrwxrwx  5 scott  staff  170 Dec 16 23:18 .
drwxr-xr-x  8 scott  staff  272 Dec 16 23:12 ..
----------  1 scott  staff    0 Dec 16 23:18 a
-rw-r--r--  1 scott  staff    0 Dec 16 23:18 b
-rwxrwxrwx  1 scott  staff    0 Dec 16 23:18 c
$ cd ..
$ chmod -R a=r,a+X,u+w Test
$ ll Test
drwxr-xr-x  5 scott  staff  170 Dec 16 23:18 .
drwxr-xr-x  8 scott  staff  272 Dec 16 23:12 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 scott  staff    0 Dec 16 23:18 a
-rw-r--r--  1 scott  staff    0 Dec 16 23:18 b
-rwxr-xr-x  1 scott  staff    0 Dec 16 23:18 c


Last edited by Scott; 12-16-2009 at 06:41 PM.. Reason: changed: umask analysis looked -> umask analysis (although wrong) looked
 

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CHGRP(1)							   User Commands							  CHGRP(1)

NAME
chgrp - change group ownership SYNOPSIS
chgrp [OPTION]... GROUP FILE... chgrp [OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE... DESCRIPTION
Change the group of each FILE to GROUP. With --reference, change the group of each FILE to that of RFILE. -c, --changes like verbose but report only when a change is made -f, --silent, --quiet suppress most error messages -v, --verbose output a diagnostic for every file processed --dereference affect the referent of each symbolic link (this is the default), rather than the symbolic link itself -h, --no-dereference affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file (useful only on systems that can change the ownership of a symlink) --no-preserve-root do not treat '/' specially (the default) --preserve-root fail to operate recursively on '/' --reference=RFILE use RFILE's group rather than specifying a GROUP value -R, --recursive operate on files and directories recursively The following options modify how a hierarchy is traversed when the -R option is also specified. If more than one is specified, only the final one takes effect. -H if a command line argument is a symbolic link to a directory, traverse it -L traverse every symbolic link to a directory encountered -P do not traverse any symbolic links (default) --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit EXAMPLES
chgrp staff /u Change the group of /u to "staff". chgrp -hR staff /u Change the group of /u and subfiles to "staff". AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering. REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report chgrp translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
chown(1), chown(2) Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chgrp> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) chgrp invocation' GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 CHGRP(1)
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