On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 18:04 -0400, Kelly J. Morris wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> Patrick - Thanks for your reply.
> 
> >>sudo find /home/kelly -type d -exec chmod ugtx |{|} |;
> >>bash: syntax error near unexpected token `|'
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I don't understand what the '|' is doing here. Maybe you mean:
> >
> >        sudo find /home/kelly -type d -exec chmod ugtx '{}' \;
> >
> >BTW, why do you want the 't' bit?
> >  
> >
> This is entirely "monkey-see/monkey-do" on my part. I just did what 
> someone on a list or forum told me to do a couple of years ago. It 
> worked. I wrote down what I did in case I had to do it again one day. 
> So, I'll reboot into Ubuntu and try the above. It's entirely possible 
> that I made a mistake writing things down and/or that I can't read my 
> own writing.

Well the '|' should be '\' and the 't' should be '+' for those commands
to make sense - but they still shouldn't be necessary to migrate
settings, what they are doing is fixing permissions on all the files and
directories in your home directory.

P.

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