Copy shell script and preserve permissions

Question

I have a small shell script that starts a program when I double-click it. (I have set the permissions to allow executing the script).

I want to be able to copy that script to another computer so that the new user can double-click it without needing to know anything about chmod or permissions. But I can't find out how to preserve the execute permission when I copy the file.

I can usually find answers with Google but this has me defeated - I guess I am not expressing my question properly.

Thanks

Answer 1

Use rsync or tar.

rsync -p file user@host:destdir

plus other options you might need.

Or

tar cvzf file.tar file

then copy (or email, etc.) file.tar to the other machine and extract the file:

tar xpvzf file.tar