Rusty,
Thank you so much. Your solution did the trick.
BTW, where did you acquire this info?
Seve
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On 1/4/01, 3:46:33 PM, Rusty Carruth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
regarding Re[2]: [expert] CHMOD Question:
> bcc sent to Servatio also...
> Sevatio Octavio<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Rusty,
> >
> > You got it!!! Now, what does "xargs: unmatched single quote" mean?
> > That's what it's telling me when I use your method. Am I missing
> > something from the line?
> >
> > find /the/directory/in/question -type f | xargs chmod 644
> Oh, yeah, I forgot to warn everyone. If there are special characters
> in the filenames inside that directory, you'll need to use something
> like this instead:
> find /thedir -type f -exec chmod 644 \{\} \;
> (if using csh)
> if you want to see what its doing, say
> find /thedir -type f -print -exec chmod 644 \{\} \;
> (again, for csh)
> rc
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