On 16/08/00 09:40 +0530, Dwivedi Ajay kumar spewed into the LI bitstream:
> I have got a dircetory with all its subdirs and files in the mode
> 700. I wish to change the mode of all the directories to 755 and files
> in them to 644. Is there a way it can be done easily? chmod does not seem
> to distinguish between dir and files.
Simple solution ... boot into X, select the files you want and do a chmod :)
> Moreover is there a cool way to change the mode of all files
> starting with "." ? ".*" seems to match even ".." and during a recursive
> chmod changes the modes in even the parent directory.
quote whatever string you are searching for, if you dont want it to be
interpreted as a wildcard. Either the entire string, or use \ for the special
characters which occur.
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