On Tuesday, December 19, 2006 @ 5:15 AM, Joachim Schrod wrote:

>Greg Wallace wrote:
>> I would like to go through all files and subdirectories of a directory
and
>> set the group permissions equal to the owner permissions.  Is there a
>> command that will do this?  This directory has thousands of files and
>> hundreds of directories under it, so doing this manually isn't feasible.

>find directory | while read f
>    do setfacl -m `getfacl "$f" | grep user | sed s/user/group/` "$f"
>    done


>       Joachim

Joachim:
  Well, I tried this script but it didn't work.  I put the above code into a
file, hard coded /root/test for directory to point to a directory called
test under root that had 4 files under it, and tried executing the script to
see if it copied over the permissions.  I got the following error when I
tried to run it --

': not a valid identifier line 1: read : `f

Greg W

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