Shell script to easily fix permissions recursively on files and directories (Set user / group / file mode / dir mode)

fix-permissions.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

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# Copyright (c) 2019 Björn Richter
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USAGE="
  Usage:
    ./fix-permissions.sh <OWNER|:GROUP|OWNER:GROUP|-> <DIR_MODE|-> <FILE_MODE|-> PATH...
 
  Examples:
    Fix permissions for home directory
 
        ./fix-permissions.sh tony:stark 755 644 /home/tony/
 
    Fix permissions for specific directories and files and only change user, not group:
 
        ./fix-permissions.sh tony 700 600 /home/tony/.ssh/ /home/tony/.my.cnf
 
    Fix only file permissions and change only group (for folders as well as files)
 
        ./fix-permissions.sh :stark 755 - /srv/data/tony/
 
  Any of the parameters in angle brackets \`<...>\` can be skipped by passing a
  single dash \`-\`. For example, when passing a \`-\` for DIR_MODE, the dir mode
  will not be changed.
"

set -e # fail when command failed

if [[ $1 =~ ^(-h|--help)$ ]]; then
    echo "$USAGE"
    exit
fi

if [[ $# -lt 4 ]]; then
    echo >&2 "$USAGE"
    exit 1
fi

owner_group="$1"
dir_mode="$2"
file_mode="$3"
paths="${@:4}"

# Fix owner / group
if [[ $owner_group != '-' ]]; then
    chown -R "$owner_group" "${paths[@]}"
fi

# Fix directry permissions
if [[ $dir_mode != '-' ]]; then
    find "${paths[@]}" -type d -exec chmod "$dir_mode" "{}" +
fi

# Fix file permissions
if [[ $file_mode != '-' ]]; then
    find "${paths[@]}" -type f -exec chmod "$file_mode" "{}" +
fi