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Status Future consideration
Workspace AIX
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 18, 2024

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chmod: add reference option

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Sometimes it is useful to set permissions the same way as they already set on one of the files. In Linux it is possible to do the operation with --reference option to provide a reference file with permissions already set.


Linux example:


# ls -l
total 0
-rw-r-----. 1 root root 0 Jul 18 12:25 file1
-r--------. 1 root root 0 Jul 18 12:25 file2
-r--------. 1 root root 0 Jul 18 12:25 file3
-r--------. 1 root root 0 Jul 18 12:25 file4
-r--------. 1 root root 0 Jul 18 12:25 file5
-r--------. 1 root root 0 Jul 18 12:25 file6
-r--------. 1 root root 0 Jul 18 12:25 file7
-r--------. 1 root root 0 Jul 18 12:25 file8
-r--------. 1 root root 0 Jul 18 12:25 file9
# chmod --reference file1 file{2..9}
# ls -l
total 0
-rw-r-----. 1 root root 0 Jul 18 12:25 file1
-rw-r-----. 1 root root 0 Jul 18 12:25 file2
-rw-r-----. 1 root root 0 Jul 18 12:25 file3
-rw-r-----. 1 root root 0 Jul 18 12:25 file4
-rw-r-----. 1 root root 0 Jul 18 12:25 file5
-rw-r-----. 1 root root 0 Jul 18 12:25 file6
-rw-r-----. 1 root root 0 Jul 18 12:25 file7
-rw-r-----. 1 root root 0 Jul 18 12:25 file8
-rw-r-----. 1 root root 0 Jul 18 12:25 file9


It would be good to have the same feature on AIX.


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