How to assign execute permission to a sh file in windows to be executed in linux

Question

Here is my problem   In Windows I am making a zip file in which there is a text  sh file which is supposed to be executed in Linux  The user on the other end opens the zip file in Linux and tries to execute the  sh file but the execute permission is gone  So the user has to do it manually   like explained here add execute permission   How can I in Windows make the  sh executable and add it to a zip file so that when the zip file opens in linux the  sh file still retains its execute permission   so that user doesn t have to do it manually

User · Answer

This is not possible  Linux permissions and windows permissions do not translate  They are machine specific  It would be a security hole to allow permissions to be set on files before they even arrive on the target system

User · Answer

This is possible using the Info-Zip open-source Zip utilities   If unzip is run with the -X parameter  it will attempt to preserve the original permissions   If the source filesystem was NTFS and the destination is a Unix one  it will attempt to translate from one to the other   I do not have a Windows system available right now to test the translation  so you will have to experiment with which group needs to be awarded execute permissions   It ll be something like  Users  or  Any user

User · Answer

As far as I know the permission system in Linux is set up in such a way to prevent exactly what you are trying to accomplish   I think the best you can do is to give your Linux user a custom unzip one-liner to run on the prompt   unzip zip name zip  amp  amp  chmod  x script name sh   If there are multiple scripts that you need to give execute permission to  write a grant perms sh as follows      bin bash   file  grant perms sh  chmod  x script 1 sh chmod  x script 2 sh     chmod  x script n sh    You can put the scripts all on one line for chmod  but I found separate lines easier to work with in vim and with shell script commands    And now your unzip one-liner becomes   unzip zip name zip  amp  amp  source grant perms sh   Note that since you are using source to run grant perms sh  it doesn t need execute permission

User · Answer

The ZIP file format does allow to store the permission bits  but Windows programs normally ignore it   The zip utility on Cygwin however does preserve the x bit  just like it does on Linux  If you do not want to use Cygwin  you can take a source code and tweak it so that all   sh files get the executable bit set   Or write a script like explained here

[linux] How to assign execute permission to a .sh file in windows to be executed in linux

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