[Cialug] sync file permissions

[Ed Meacham]

Hey everyone - just joined the mailing list. I'm actually who this was for.
Barry was my fourth resource in trying to find a solution for this.

Champ--
Thanks for the link, I'm going to give this a go; see if either method in
that post works for what I'm doing.

-emeacham


-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of David Champion
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 10:55 AM
To: cialug at cialug.org
Subject: Re: [Cialug] sync file permissions

If the files are the same, can't you just rsync and preserve permissions? 
If the files are different... that's another story.

Here's a thread where someone was trying to do the same thing, has a shell 
script to do what you want once they decided rsync won't do it:

http://fixunix.com/unix/88355-rsync-permissions-only.html

-dc

Barry wrote:
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does any body know of a way to sync just file permissions between two
directories?

I know there's cp -a and rsync -a , but I don't want to copy contents,
just permissions

chmod has a --reference=file parameter; it seems like that could be
leveraged with find -exec or xargs

anybody done this?


-barry

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