tag 19447 notabug close 19447 stop On 26/12/14 18:28, Tom wrote: > Hi > > chmod does not work recursively. The command > > chmod --recursive --verbose a-x ./*.txt > > only has effects in the actual working directory, but not in the > subdirectories.
You're passing only .txt files to chmod here so the --recursive option in ineffective here. You probably want something like: find . -name '*.txt' -print0 | xargs -r0 chmod --verbose a-x cheers, Pádraig
