rsync - Nov 2005 - [Bug 3253] Feature request - Sync perms/ownership/time etc but with no file transfer

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3253


wayned@samba.org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Severity|normal                      |enhancement
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX




------- Comment #1 from wayned@samba.org  2005-11-16 12:45 MST -------
I think this would be best handled by some other application.  For instance, it
would be simple to write a perl script that would be able to parse the output
of "ls -lR" from one system and apply the permissions/ownership/groups
to the
matching files on another system (skipping those that don't exist).


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------- Comment #2 from wayned@samba.org  2005-11-16 18:51 MST -------
Created an attachment (id=1575)
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perl script solution

I enjoy coding simple perl scripts like this, so here is a perl script that
will parse the output of "ls -lR dir [dir...]" or "ls -nR dir
[dir...]" and
restore the permissions, owner, and group of all the files it finds.  You can
feel free to manually edit ls's output to remove unnecessary directories
and/or
files, and then use the result to apply the listed attrs to another host's
files.  For instance, assuming the script "file-attr-restore" is
somewhere in
the $PATH of server "remotehost", this sequence of commands would
should update
the attrs on remotehost:

ls -lR /etc /usr/local/etc >saved-permissions
cat saved-permissions | ssh remotehost file-attr-restore


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