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Anton Kim
Anton Kim

Reputation: 943

Clone permissions from identical folders recursively

There are identical folders with almost the same content/structure from two different machines but the permissions are different.

How can I copy all permissions from folder A to folder B recursively to trickle down to all subfolders and files with same name and skip anything that is not.

There is a command, for example:

chown --reference=otherfile thisfile

Is there a way to make it recursive or maybe any other way?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 350

Answers (1)

Jack
Jack

Reputation: 6178

There may be a way to do this in the -exec part of find, but this works:

for file in $( find . -mindepth 1 ); do
   getfacl ${otherdir}/${file} | setfacl --set-file=- ${file}
done

It will copy ALL of the permissions, including Access Control Lists.

Upvotes: 1

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