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

I modified Anton`s command to get the additional string chown user:group /file_or_folder_path. Now you can get a bash script which contains two string for each file/folder.

command:

find . -type f | xargs stat -c "%a %U:%G %n" | awk '{print "chown "$2" "$3"\nchmod "$1" "$3}' > ./filesPermissions.sh

Example of output:

chown root:root /file_or_folder_path
chmod 777 /file_or_folder_path