Comments on: How to Copy File Permissions and Ownership to Another File in Linux

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 08:31:46 +0000

In reply to Alexey.

@Alexey

Your most welcome, once more. Thanks for following us.

By: Alexey

Alexey — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 05:57:04 +0000

In reply to Aaron Kili.

Thank you again!

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 08:05:58 +0000

In reply to Alexey. @Alexey You are welcome. And you can copy the permissions and ownership of CATALOG1 to CATALOG2. Then use the -p flag of the cp command to preserve permissions and ownership while copying files from CATALOG1 to CATALOG2 like this:

$ chown --reference=CATALOG1 CATALOG2
$ chmod --reference=CATALOG1 CATALOG2
$ cp -p ./CATALOG1/* ./CATALOG2/

I hope this makes sense to you.

By: Alexey

Alexey — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 10:54:04 +0000

Thank you for your article. May I use the "--reference=" key for folders, not only files? For example, to copy permissions or owner on catalog CATALOG1 with all files located in this folder to CATALOG2?