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I have a folder with some files, which each have different permissions. Some are read-only, some are read/write, some are read/execute.

How can I copy the permissions from user to group, so that for example a file marked read-write for user will be set to read-write for group, but a file read-executable for a user will be set read-executable for the group.

Can this be done with a single command?

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chmod from coreutils understands such assignments:

chmod g=u file
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  • just a joke :) #! /bin/bash for FILE in * do chmod g=$(ls -l $FILE | cut -c 2,3,4) $FILE done Commented Apr 4, 2013 at 14:17

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