April 2008
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Dump Unix File Mode and Ownership
I found several situations where I needed to recursively record file ownerships and permissions for the sake of documentation or to restore them later. I didn’t bother making something to do it until I had a project that required it.
This might not be the smartest way to go about this. I recognize that this functionality exists in rsync but you might not want to copy the files or you might want...