Quick and dirty script to fix permissions for all files and directories under $HOME.
This little tool makes use of find and xargs to boost the operations and it's faster than the find -exec chmod combo.
Yes, you can run the same commands manually everytime but this script features options to fix all permissions on your $HOME as they should be...
This is specially usefull when copying files from other systems and permissions on directories and files get garbled, and you end up with things like:
drwxrwxrwx directory
-rwxrwxrwx file
everywhere...
The following is assumed:
- directories are to be set as
rwxr-xr-x(octal: 0755) - non-executable files (i.e. PDFs, txt, etc) are to be set as
rw-r--r--(octal: 0644) - executable files (i.e. shell scripts, Perl, Python, Ruby and RUN files) are to be set as
rwxr-xr-x(octal: 0755) - hidden directories and files are left untouched (thanks Drazenko Djuricic for the heads-up!)
Feel free to modify the script to suit your needs
./fixhomeperms.sh
fixhomeperms.sh by Martin Mielke <martinm@rsysadmin.com>
Usage: fixhomeperms.sh [-h] [-d] [-n] [-s] [-p] [-P] [-r] [-R] [-a]
-h Prints this help.
-d Fix permissions on directories (0755).
-n Fix permissions on non-exec files (0644).
-s Fix permissions on shell script files (0755).
-p Fix permissions on Perl files (0755).
-P Fix permissions on Python files (0755).
-r Fix permissions on Ruby files (0755).
-R Fix permissions on RUN files (0755).
-a Fix permissions on all executable files (.sh, .pl, .py, .rb, .run).
-A Fix all in one step, including directories and non-exec files.
This script is provided "AS IS" and the author is not to be held responsible for any damage caused by the use or misuse thereof.