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The sysadmin at my former employer had the bad habit of uploading files as root to directories we all used. It was a real PITA, so I hacked this script to fix the perms, without having to be root. No magic: the directory has to be writable.

1. #!/bin/bash
2. #
3. # Wed Nov 23 19:25:14 CET 2005 * <nonick AT 8027 DOT org>
4. #
5. # Aarggh....
6. #
7.  
8. ##################
9. # Load lib
10. #
11. if [ ! -f ~/bin/messages.sh ]; then
12. echo "~/bin/messages.sh is required but not found. Bye..."
13. exit 1
14. fi
15. . ~/bin/messages.sh
16.  
17.  
18. ##################
19. # Check params
20. #
21. if (( ${#@} < 1 ))
22. then
23. echo
24. echo $(basename $0)
25. echo
26. echo " Looks for files owned by root and moves and copies them to regain ownership"
27. echo " This needs the target directory to be writable by the user"
28. echo
29. echo " Usage:"
30. echo " $0 <directory>"
31. echo
32. exit 1
33. fi
34.  
35. dir=$1
36.  
37. if [ ! -d "$dir" ] || [ ! -w "$dir" ]
38. then
39. error_msg "Error: either '$dir' is not a directory or it is not writable."
40. exit 2
41. fi
42.  
43. ##################
44. # Go
45. #
46. info_msg "\nRegaining ownership of files in directory '${BLUE}$dir${OFF}'...\n\n"
47.  
48. for file in $(find $dir -name '*php')
49. do
50. group=$(stat -c %g $file)
51. cnt=0
52. if (( group == 0 ))
53. then
54. run_cmd "File ${RED}${file}${OFF} belongs to root, moving ... "\
55. "mv $file $file~~ && cp $file~~ $file"
56. let cnt=$cnt+1
57. fi
58. done
59.  
60. info_msg "\n${BLUE}${cnt}${OFF} files needed moving.\n\n"
61.  
62. if (( cnt > 0 ))
63. then
64. if ask_msg "I left backup files. Remove them? " "N"
65. then
66. #run_cmd "Removing ... " "find $dir -iname '*php~~' -exec rm \{\} \;"
67. info_msg "${RED}Feature disabled${OFF}\n\n"
68. fi
69. fi
70.  
71. exit 0;
72. Download this code: findrootfiles.sh

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