UNIX: Check permissions for intermediate directories on UNIX when troubleshooting permission problems

The below command helps us to identity when dealing with the permission problems of an hierarchy directories.

To run on individual server

dir=<Absolute Directory>; while [ “$dir” != “/” ]; do ls -ald $dir; dir=`dirname $dir`; done

To run on multiple server

for lpar_df_list in `cat /home/sysadmin/marimupa/scripts/file_name/server`
do
for filesystem_name in `ssh $lpar_df_list df -gt |grep -v Filesystem |grep -v proc |grep -v “:” |awk ‘{print $6}’`
do
echo $lpar_df_list: $filesystem_name
dir=$filesystem_name
while [ “$dir” != “/” ]; do ssh $lpar_df_list ls -ald $dir; dir=”$(dirname “$dir”)”; done
echo ” ”
done
done