Outputs a JSON file with the relative path as the key and the octal permissions as the value

JSONOctalPerms.sh

#!/bin/bash
#If path given as argument, that is used as the starting point. Else it starts from .
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
1="."
fi
echo "{"
SEP=""
find "${1}" | while read DIR
do
stat "${DIR}" -c "$SEP\"%n\":\"%a\""
SEP=","
done
echo "}"

Addition to deal with spaces in file names