Resending because I forgot to remove the "SPAM" header, sorry.
On 25/06/2016 11:14, Pierre Labastie wrote:
> On 25/06/2016 05:07, Ken Moffat wrote:
>> At the moment, there is a problem with file permissions in texlive
>> texmf for 2016 (like the redundant files included in the source, it
>> will get fixed one day), so for the moment I'm trying to fix these
>> up after the install.
>>
>> On my previous build I eventually realised I was not addressing the
>> two files with 700 perms, but I was shocked to see that I had only
>> managed to fix the few files with 640 perms, not the vast number
>> with 600 perms. At that time I thought I had maybe not saved the
>> updated script before I ran the build, so I added the 700 test and
>> saved it.
>>
>> But now it looks as if only the *last* of alternatives is being
>> used. And yet find itself is finding all of them
>>
>> What I have at hte moment is (one line, although it will wrap here):
>>
>> find /opt/texlive/${TEXYEAR}/texmf-dist -type f -perm 600 -o -perm
>> 640 -o -perm 700 -exec chmod -v 644 {} \;
>>
>> From the two runs I can see that there are 667 files with 600 perms,
>> 5 with 640, and 2 with 700.
>>
>> After the second run I tried:
>>
>> find /opt/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/ -type f -perm 600 -o -perm 640 -o
>> -perm 700 | wc -l
>> 672
>
> I think you need parentheses (of course xargs is good too!). As usual in
> computer languages, 'or' has less precedence than 'and', and in "find" syntax,
> 'and' is implied if 'or' (ie -o) is not given... You could achieve what you
> need with:
> find /opt/texlive/${TEXYEAR}/texmf-dist -type f \( -perm 600 -o -perm
> 640 -o -perm 700 \) -exec chmod -v 644 {} \;
> (parentheses need to be escaped for the shell).
>
> Pierre
>
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