Copy file permissions, but not files [closed]

Answer 1

You could try:

chmod owner-group-other ./dir or ./file

Unless permissions are fine grained and different from one file to another, you could do a recursive chmod on the directory and unify the permissions.

See man chmod for references on the options that might be useful

Answer 2

You could use this script (it changes the permissions recursively but individually for each file/directory)

#!/bin/sh
chmod --reference $1 $2
if [ -d $1 ]
then
    if [ "x`ls $1`" != "x" ]
    then
        for f in `ls $1`
        do
            $0 $1/$f $2/$f
        done
    fi
fi

Run the script with arguments version2 version1

Answer 3

You should have a look at the --reference option for chmod:

chmod --reference version2/somefile version1/somefile

Apply find and xargs in a fitting manner and you should be fine, i.e. something like

 ~/version2$ find . -type f | xargs -I {} chmod --reference {} ../version1/{}

This even works recursively, and is robust against missing files in the target directory (bar the No such file ... errors, which can be ignored). Of course it won't do anything to files that only exist in the target directory.

Cheers,