On Mon, 8 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : One last question! :). : If I want to keep a particular directory, and all files and : subdirectories completly private to my user, how do I do apply the : suggested filters to this? (If I do chmod 600 * -R or something, it will set all : the files correctly, but then since the directories don't have the execute bit, : my user can't enter subdirectories). So I want to do 'chmod 600 <all files>' : then 'chmod 700 <all directories>'? : I tried find . -type d -print | chmod 700, but it didn't work. :(.
That's because you didn't tell it what to do. In the above you could place the command `xargs' after the pipe, and it would work. Or, you could use the "-exec" option of find. However, there are better ways of doing what you want to do. `chmod -R go-awx *' comes to mind. Or, `chmod -R u+rwX /home/dir'. Manpages are your friend, read the man pages for find and chmod. It may take a few reads before it sinks in. It you're new to UNIX I recommend purchasing a book onUNIX administration. The Armadillo book by AEleen Frisch is excellent (O'Reilly & Associates) -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
