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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Keeping your Home file permissions correct Post 302549101 by bakunin on Sunday 21st of August 2011 01:09:45 PM
Old 08-21-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by antofthy
The problems I have with my current method is that while I can set exceptions, for specific files (such as for the home directory itself as above). I can't do it generally.

That is I can make an exception for say "bin/file.dat" (a data file in a directly predominantly executables) I can't make it general "bin/*.dat" or recursivally general "bin/**/*.dat"
This is basically a matter of correct parsing of the configuration file. I suppose you can probably solve most problems by applying the following algorithm:

First sort all entries in the configuration by "length" - that is: by the number of subdirectory levels they contain. Then, within the levels, sort the entries simply alphabetically. Apply now the rules to every file from top down.

This way you will automatically apply all the exceptions correctly, because the "shorter" rules for a specific path will be applied before the longer ones. You can have every number of exceptions this way.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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