comparing permissions in an archive

[Glenn Dawson]

At 02:29 PM 10/1/2005, Vizion wrote:
>Hi
>
>Someone must know a simple way to do this:
>
>I regulalrly need to compare the permissions of two largely similar archives
>stored in two seperate paths.
>
>Most of the files are of the same name and relative path but  there may be
>miscellaneous additional files present or absent in each archive.
>
>I want:
>1.  to be able to produce a list of the full path and name of those 
>files that
>share an identical path from their respective archive roots, but have
>different permissions.
>
>2. After examining the list I would like to be able to adjust the permissions
>so that files of the same path and name in one selected archive are afjusted
>to match the permissions of their equivalent file in the other archive.
>
>Does anyone have a simple solution?

take a look at mtree, it should be able to do what you need.

-Glenn


>thanks
>
>david
>
>
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