topic Re: Help on script to change permissions in Operating System - HP-UX

Help on script to change permissions

NDO — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:29:26 GMT

Hi

I have written the following script that later I want to put in cron:

#!/bin/bash
_find="/usr/bin/find"
_paths="/moneta_polled01/mediation_gsm /moneta_polled01/mediation_mmsc"
for d in $_paths
do
$_find $d -type f -exec chmod 777 {} \;
done

but it does not seem to be working for the second subdirectory define on line 3.

Please can you help

Re: Help on script to change permissions

Laurent Menase — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:50:36 GMT

what is the error?

are you sure you have write access on dir and are owner of the files in /moneta_polled01/mediation_mmsc

else you could write

#!/bin/bash
_find="/usr/bin/find"
_paths="/moneta_polled01/mediation_gsm /moneta_polled01/mediation_mmsc"
$_find $_paths -type f -exec chmod 777 {} \;

OR

$_find $_paths -type f |xargs chmod 777

Re: Help on script to change permissions

NDO — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:15:20 GMT

I am running as root.

Re: Help on script to change permissions

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:47:08 GMT

The syntax appears correct. I ran the script using POSIX shell on HP-UX and it parsed both directories I specififed.

Have you tried running the script with debug turned on via "/bin/bash -x" on the first line?

Re: Help on script to change permissions

NDO — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:14:42 GMT

Hi,

I think the script is running fine, the problem is, there are files arriving every minute or so on those directories, so sometimes the script finishes to run, but some files did not get the permission changed because files are arriving all the time.

Re: Help on script to change permissions

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:21:52 GMT

That would make perfect sense.

Re: Help on script to change permissions

Dennis Handly — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:04:52 GMT

You can speed this up by changing the find to:

$_find $d -type f -exec chmod 777 {} +