FixAttributes

From GoboLinux Knowledge Base

Fix attributes from files based on its contents. This is useful for restoring the permissions when files are copied from filesystems that do not support Unix-style permission (like FAT floppies).

Usage: FixAttributes [options...] files...

Options:

• -h, --help - Shows this help.
• -v, --version - Show program version.
• -V, --verbose - Enable verbose mode.
• -R, --recursive - Recurses into subdirectories fixing permissions.
• -t, --true <entry> - Sets permission <entry> if file is considered executable.
• -f, --false <entry> - Sets permission <entry> if file is considered not executable.

Example:

FixAttributes -t 700 -f 600 *

[edit] Configuration

Default permission modes are obtained from FixAttributes.conf.

Typical contents are

fixatChmodTrue=755
fixatChmodFalse=644

which will change files which seem to be executables to mode 755 (owner read, write, execute; group read, execute; others read, execute), and files which do not seem to be executables to mode 644 (owner read, write; group read; others read.)