Is it possible to create a script to save and restore permissions?

Question

I am using a linux system and need to experiment with some permissions on a set of nested files and directories. I wonder if there is not some way to save the permissions for t

Answer 1

you can get the file's permissions with

ls -l | awk '{print $1" "$NF}'

which will return a list of file names and their permissions. save it somewhere, and once you're done - restore (chmod) each file's permissions.