Yes, I know, the archive bit is evil.
That being said, is there support for querying it with ‘find’, and modifying it with ‘chmod’?
My googling has turned up nothing……
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Yes, I know, the archive bit is evil.
That being said, is there support for querying it with ‘find’, and modifying it with ‘chmod’?
My googling has turned up nothing……
As already mentioned by Jed, you can use attrib both to query and to set the archive bit. You must however remember to use the cygpath tool to convert between cygwin style file names and DOS style names, as required by attrib.
If you convert the output of find with cygpath, invoke attrib for each file name and use egrep to check for lines starting with A (regexp ‘^A’), you should be able to search for files with the archive bit set.