shtool-fixperm (1)

shtool fixperm [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] path [path ...]

shtool fixperm fixes file permissions inside a source tree under path by cleaning up the permission bits. It determines the cleaned up permission from the already set bits. It is intended to be run before a tarball is rolled (usually with shtool tarball) out of a source tree. The trick is that this is more convenient than having to set the permissions manually or by using a large file list.

The following command line options are available.

-v, --verbose

Display some processing information.

-t, --trace

Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.

 #   Makefile.in
 dist:
     shtool fixperm -v *
     ...

The \s-1GNU\s0 shtool fixperm command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <[email protected]> in 1996 for \s-1OSSP\s0 eperl. It was later taken over into \s-1GNU\s0 shtool.

shtool\|(1), chmod\|(1).