I am moving a website from one server to another and Git does not store metadata such as file permissions. I need to find the directories and files that are not 775 / 664 respectively.
Right now, I'm using this cobbled-together contraption:
$ find . -type d -exec ls -la {} \; | grep ^d | grep -v ^drwxrwxr-x
$ find . -type f -exec ls -la {} \; | grep -v ^d | grep -v ^-rw-rw-r-- | grep -v '.git'
Though this works, I feel it is rather hacky. Is there a better way to do this, perhaps a canonical way, or should I just be hacky?
This is running on a recent Ubuntu version with GNU tools under Bash.
Best Answer
Use the
-perm
test tofind
in combination with-not
:-perm 775
matches all files with permissions exactly equal to775
.-perm 664
does the same for664
.-not
(boolean NOT) negates the test that follows, so it matches exactly the opposite of what it would have: in this case, all those files that don't have the correct permissions.-o
(boolean OR) combines two sets of tests together, matching when either of them do: it has the lowest precedence, so it divides our tests into two distinct groups. You can also use parentheses to be more explicit. Here we match directories with permissions that are not775
and ordinary files with permissions that are not664
.If you wanted two separate commands for directories and files, just cut it in half at
-o
and use each half separately: