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From: "Bradley Bell" <bradleyb@u.washington.edu>
To: <linux@u.washington.edu>
Subject: RE: extracting file permissions
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:36:50 -0700
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here's a really kludgey way:

chmod -v --reference=<name> <name> | awk '{print $6}'

though if the object is just to copy permissions, you can use
the --reference option directly, without ever needing to extract them.  i.e.
chmod --reference <old name> <new name>

-brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: LINUX-owner@u.washington.edu
> [mailto:LINUX-owner@u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of Zanfur
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 4:14 PM
> To: UW Linux Group
> Subject: extracting file permissions
>
>
> Howdy!
>
> I was wondering if anyone knew of a handy way (short of writing a
> utility myself) that would extract the file permissions of a file on a
> unix filesystem in numeric form?  I need this for a script -- I'm trying
> to copy permissions of a directory structure (and not the files) to
> another, similar directory structure.  Thanks!
>
> Cheers,
> -robin
>

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