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I made a script to copy an image to a temporary directory, convert it to an another format, then move it to a final directory. But i can't get the chmod command to work, the file is copied to the temporary directory but it's chmod is stuck on -rw------- (the original chmod of the file).

If i apply a 777 chmod on the original file, the copied one get a -rwx------ instead of a -rwxrwxrwx

The copied and orignal files have the same user.

TS=$(date +"%Y")/$(date +"%m")/$(date +"%d")/$(date +"%Hh%Ms%S") PATHTMP="/tmp/faxtiff" mkdir -p $PATHTMP chmod 777 $PATHTMP cp $FILE $PATHTMP chmod 777 $PATHTMP/$FILE convert $PATHTMP/$FILE -scale '50%x100%!' $PATHTMP/fax.jpg chmod 777 $PATHTMP/fax.jpg mkdir -p /home/argent/faxes-recus/$TS chmod 777 /home/argent/faxes-recus/$TS #rm $PATHTMP/$FILE mv $PATHTMP/*.jpg /home/argent/faxes-recus/$TS
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mdpc is correct. I don't know why somebody downvoted your question, but...

If root owns the file, you should be able (assuming you have access of course) to do a sudo chmod..., and that should work.

If, however, you don't want root to own the file anymore, you'll need to do a sudo chown $USER <filename> to cause the file to be owned by the user you are logged in as.

I haven't tried your script, but go ahead and try the following, noting 2 things:

1) Don't go around chowning things that you shouldn't. I don't know the context of this question, and it may be bad, very bad, or extremely extremely bad to chown the files in question (read: abuse of power). However, if you are creating this content and are implicitly (or explicitly) being given permission to mod these files, then it shouldn't be a problem.

2) I commented out a couple chowns that you shouldn't need. Remember, you can always do a ls -l to see the ownership of a given file.

TS=$(date +"%Y")/$(date +"%m")/$(date +"%d")/$(date +"%Hh%Ms%S") PATHTMP="/tmp/faxtiff" mkdir -p $PATHTMP #sudo chown -R $USER $PATHTMP chmod 777 $PATHTMP cp $FILE $PATHTMP sudo chown $PATHTMP/$FILE chmod 777 $PATHTMP/$FILE convert $PATHTMP/$FILE -scale '50%x100%!' $PATHTMP/fax.jpg #shouldn't need to chown here if the script is being run as the logged in user. chmod 777 $PATHTMP/fax.jpg mkdir -p /home/argent/faxes-recus/$TS #chown $USER /home/argent/faxes-recus/$TS chmod 777 /home/argent/faxes-recus/$TS #rm $PATHTMP/$FILE mv $PATHTMP/*.jpg /home/argent/faxes-recus/$TS
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  • Thank you, i applied your methods and i made my script work as i wanted to. Commented Jan 9, 2013 at 14:27
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If you are NOT the owner of the file in question, you cannot do a chmod operation on the file.

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