retain file permission

lightpace · 12-05-2007, 02:28 PM

if i am copying files through a shell script from serverA to serverB using SFTP, how would i make sure that the files when copied over would have 644 as file permission. i have already setup umask to 022, made sure that the source and target shells are same but when the files got copied over they have 640 as file permissions; btw it works fine with FTP, only causing issues with SFTP.

can someone help?

thanks
Mark

ehawk · 12-06-2007, 12:47 AM

http://www.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/...4-05/0252.html

for sftp2:

get [-p] [--overwrite] [-I] [-W] [-c] [--force-lower-case] [file ...]

Transfers the specified files from the remote end to the local end. Directories are recursively copied with their contents.

If -p,--preserve-attributes is given, sftp tries to retain permissions and timestamps.

I am told this also works for sftp -p