[NTLUG:Discuss] Listing file permissions in "chmod format"

[Robert Citek]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 08:06:16AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>>     cat {file} | sed {script} > {newfile}
>>     chmod {newfile} --reference={file}
>>     mv {file} {file}.{date}
>>     mv {newfile} {file}
>
> Oops, that second line should probably be
>
>    chmod --reference={file} {newfile}

And to tighten it up a bit:

  mv {file} {file}.{date}
  sed {script} {file}.{date} > {file}
  chmod  --reference={file}.{date} {file}
  chmod a+w {file}.{date}

and on SunOS:

  mv {file} {file}.{date}
  sed {script} {file}.{date} > {file}
  chmod $(stat -c %a {file}.{date}) {file}
  chmod a+w {file}.{date}

And if you don't really need {file}.{date} to be writable, you can
drop that last line.

Regards,
-Robert