How to recursively change permissions with backup file comparing permissions

Question

So in my work i did a mistake and it change all the file permissions (file owner and group) recursively inside a folder. I have the backup of that folder. I'm working inside a nsf server and my idea is to copy the permissions of the backup directory to the directory where i did the mistake recursively. All the folders and files have the same name and i want to grab the permissions from each file/directory from the backup and copy the permissions to the original directory, recursively.

Answer 1

chown can be uded to change ownership of a file or firectort

chown -R root:user /dir

changes the file ownership to user

-R perform the command recursively in a directory

same for

chmod -R 600 /dir

then you specify your permission and ownership in your own format