Re: Shell scripts [was Re: Avoiding /etc/passwd and /etc/group scans]

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:15:31PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> >> I would also distribute a script or a program to chmod all scripts
> >> in a tree. Under user control, not from setup.
> >
> >I have a reasonably customizable script that I use for exactly the
> >opposite -- some files in my tree are created executable, and I use this
> >script to chmod -x all those that aren't (using extensions OR magic).  If
> >people think it would be helpful, I could modify it to do what you wanted
> >and send it to this list.
>
> I'd like to see what you have.  Thanks for offering.
> cgf

Note that the attached script changes the mode of files to non-executable
if they *don't* conform to a particular pattern, i.e., does the opposite
of what's needed here.

The "customization" can be performed by adding extensions to EXEEXT or
patterns to EXEPAT.  The patterns are separated by the ^A character
(0x01).  The script currently requires perl and awk (which can be replaced
by perl).  It's pretty raw, but I haven't had a reason to polish it.
	Igor
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