rsync change destination permissions

[Red Squirrel]

How do I go about choosing the permission of files on the fly in rsync?

So that when a backup is done, all the files are chmodded say, 700. There is a --chmod flag but it does not use the standard syntax and is not really documented.

The dirty way is to just have a script run chmod -R 700 but I'm wondering if there's a way within rsync to do it.

 

[Nothinman]

The chmod options looks pretty documented to me and it even says the syntax is the same as the chmod command.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I tried --chmod=700 to no avail. The syntax they show is different. not sure how 700 would translate to the one they show.

 

[Nothinman]

GNU chmod also accepts named options like ugo=rwx for 666. The ugo part just means user,group,other.