Need to change permistions dynamically in shell script

[Srinivas Palukuru]

Hi,

I need a solution. My shell script generates text files on server with permition -rw-r-----. after generating the files and completion of process, i need to move these files to some other folder. please help how to change these permitions in shell script with chmod.

Regards,
Srinivas

[Peter Godron · Accepted solution]

Hi,
see "man umask"
Set the default permission for when you create the files.

Also:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#28

[RAC_1]

You can control the perms with which a file is created. you can have umask setting for that. umask won;t get you execute perm though.

[spex]

Srinivas,

'umask' is better, but...

#!/usr/bin/sh
$SRCDIR=/path/to/src
$DSTDIR=/path/to/dst
$PERM=644 #rw-r--r--
for file in $(ls ${SRCDIR})
do
mv ${SRCDIR}/${file} ${DSTDIR}/${file}
chmod ${PERM} ${DSTDIR}/${file}
done
exit

PCS

[Srinivas Palukuru]

Thanks everybody.