0.2

Details

Second Release of rper (version 0.2)

Changes:

• rper, now handles symlinks appropriately; check out the updated flags
• neatened up the code a little bit
• built with command gcc -o rper rper_0.2.c -Wall -Wextra -Werror -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wconversion -Wsign-conversion -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-strong -fPIE -pie -Wl,-z,relro,-z,now -O2

Features

files (-f):

• makes the desired permissions changes to files only
• retained as the default flag if the directories flag (-d) is not used

directories (-d):

• makes the desired permissions changes to directories only
• can be used with the files flag (-f), if you wish to change directories and files to identical permissions (might not be what you want, use caution)

inclusive (-i):

• includes the specified directory (directory argument) when making permission changes
• can only be used with the directories flag (-d), has no effect when used with the files flag (-f)

non-recursive (-n):

• only makes changes to the files/directories within the specified directory (directory argument).. essentially the basic use of the chmod command

quiet (-s):

• suppresses normal output, but still displays any error output

silenced (-S):

• suppresses all output, including errors

verbose (-v):

• displays all output; both directory and file changes are provided in output

follow symlinks (-L):

• follows symlinks
• does not error when symlink is found

error on symlink (-k):

• does not follow symlinks, does not continue if symlink found
• error produced when symlnk found

permissions (-p):

• uses an octal formatted argument (eg. 755 or 0644) as the desired changed permissions.
• allows the use of () as a wildcard, eg 64 will change the user (left-most), and others (right-most) permissions, but not the group(center) permission

help (-h | -H):

• displays help for the user

about (-a):

• displays information about rper