Thanks to everyone who replied to this question. I wound up doing it in
Perl. ;-)
Sliante,
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On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 09:43, Richard Crawford wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have a shell script which duplicates a file and then renames the
> duplicate file; the trick is that the duplicate file needs to have the
> same permissions as the original file. For example:
>
> 1. Open file A.txt
> 2.
Richard Crawford wrote:
...
5. Give B.txt the same permissions as A.txt
I assume that there is some set of variables I can look at to find various
attributes of A.txt, so that $APerm = permissions(A.txt) or something, so
I can do chmod $APerm B.txt in step 5.
From the "setfacl" man page:
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 11:43, Richard Crawford wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have a shell script which duplicates a file and then renames the
> duplicate file; the trick is that the duplicate file needs to have the
> same permissions as the original file. For example:
>
> 1. Open file A.txt
> 2.
On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, MET wrote:
> if[ $MANPATH ] ; then
It's telling you it can't tokenize the expressions, right? Spacing and
quoting are not optional for this construct. And where is the test
condition? How about changing all your tests to something like:
if [ -n "$MANPATH" ]; then
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On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:42:34 -0400, MET wrote:
> I'm trying to start using Qt and I'm having problems setting up the
> environmental variables so I guess I'm off to a pretty bad start.
> Below is what I have included in my /etc/profile minus the defa
