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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting What's the best way to check file permissions before moving files if needed? Post 303036919 by MadeInGermany on Wednesday 17th of July 2019 07:24:56 AM
Old 07-17-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cacializ
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But if the variables are checked with [ -d "$directory" ] && [ -d "$destination" ], the railing slash is not needed, right?
Right. A trailing / would cause a double-check. Is technically okay though.

For Posix-compatibility you should stick to "$(ls -A)" and test it for being null or non-null. Generally better for correctly counting crazy filenames is "$(ls -qA)".
In HP-UX you can do
Code:
UNIX95=1; export UNIX95

that tells many commands to become Posix-compliant.
In Solaris you can prefix /usr/xpg4/bin to the PATH. The following should work pretty much everywhere:
Code:
PATH=/usr/xpg4/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin UNIX95=1
export PATH UNIX95
# all Posix commands and options should work now

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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

chkstat

CHKSTAT(8)					      Tool to check and set file permissions						CHKSTAT(8)

NAME

       chkstat - Tool to check and set file permissions

SYNOPSIS

       chkstat [--set|-set] [--noheader] [[--examine file ]...]  [[--files filelist ]...]  [[--root directory ]...]  permission-file ...

DESCRIPTION

       The program /usr/bin/chkstat is a tool to check and set file permissions.

       Multiple  permissions  files can be given on the commandline.  If the permission files contain multiple entries for a single file, the last
       entry found will be used.

   General Options
       --set, -set
	      This option enables setting the file permissions, the default is to check and warn only.

       --noheader
	      Omit printing the output header lines.

       --examine file
	      Check permissions for this file and not all files listed in the permissions files.

       --files filelist
	      Check permissions for the files listed in filelist and not for all files listed in the permissions files.

       --root directory
	      Prefix the files given in the permissions files by this directory.

EXAMPLE

       The command

	      chkstat -set /etc/permissions

       will parse the file /etc/permissions and set the access mode and the user- and group memberships each file listed. The format for the input
       file is

       FILEPATH OWNER:GROUP MODE

       and wildcards are not supported for the filepath. Lines starting with '#' and empty lines are treated as comments.

COPYRIGHT

       1996-2003 SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany.

       2008 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH

AUTHORS

       Reinhold Sojer, Ruediger Oertel, Michael Schroeder

       Useful changes and additions by Tobias Burnus

3rd Berkeley Distribution					    2008-04-17								CHKSTAT(8)
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