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Chmod files to recursively give group same permissions as user

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Mar 15, 202613866 views

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Is there a unix command to give the group the same permissions as the user currently has on a file-by-file basis recursively for a directory tree? I.e. if a file is user writeable it should become group writeable, otherwise it should not be group writeable and so on.

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Kudos to jamessan for showing us g=u. On my system, this seems to work:

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