SPOR(1)

SPOR 💾✨

okay so bestie, welcome to spor (that's section 1 of the User Commands manual, for the record) — the little tool that stores file modes (permission/ownership) recursively 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

spor [-hv] [-s file] [-r file] [-d file] <dirpath>

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

no cap, spor does exactly one iconic thing: it stores file modes (permission/ownership) recursively. 💅

here's the tea ☕ — it walks recursively into whatever directory you hand it, and it saves all the file mode & ownership info into a flat-file database so you can pull it back out later. it was originally built to be used with backup/rcs scripts, so like... it's giving "quietly holding your whole filesystem's outfit together while the backups do their thing." 👑

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🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• -h, --help — shows you a help text. cute, polite, informative. 🎀
• -d, --dump <file> — lists out the contents of <file>. peek inside, bestie 👀
• -r, --restore <file> — restores the file mode info from <file>. put the outfit back on 🔥
• -s, --store <file> — stores the file mode info into <file>. lock it in 🔒
• -v, --verbose — does all the operations verbosely. every little detail, narrated. 🗣️✨

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💖 EXAMPLE 💖

• store all /foodir info into /tmp/foo.spor 📥

$ spor --store /tmp/foo.spor /foodir

• get all that /foodir info back out of /tmp/foo.spor 📤

$ spor --restore /tmp/foo.spor /foodir

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Rafael Aquini <aquini@fedorapeople.org> — the mastermind behind this whole vibe. 🫶

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and that's a wrap, bestie!! this page is from the User Commands manual, it's SPOR(1), and it was dated 06 November 2010 — an absolute classic, fr fr. go store some modes, you main character. 💜🦋