Linux: Copy file and directory permissions

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by
Rolf
on 28 September 2008
in Backup and restore, Bash and Linux
. 2 Comments

How do you copy permissions recursively from one directory to another if you forgot to do ‘cp -rp’ when copying.

 

 

Here is how I did it:

root@server:/from/location/# getfacl -R * > /tmp/permissions.acl
root@server:/new/copy/of/location# setfacl --restore=/tmp/permissions.acl

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  1. Gravatar Icon 1 atul
    30 April 2009 at 2:16

    Thanks for this one – saved my re-install

  2. Gravatar Icon 2 pete
    30 April 2009 at 21:30

    thanks for this

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