How to back up and restore file permissions on Linux

Posted by xmodulo on Jan 22, 2016 6:43 AM EDT
Xmodulo; By Dan Nanni
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There are cases where you want to temporarily back up file permissions alone (not files themselves). For example, you want to prevent the content of some directory from being overwritten, so you temporarily remove write permission on all the files under the directory. Or you are troubleshooting file permission issues, and so running chmod on files here and there.

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