On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 10:31 -0700, Stuart Jansen wrote: > On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 10:13 -0700, Russel Caldwell wrote: > > Is there an easy way of changing file permissions recursively without > > changing directory permissions? > > I know there's already two good responses, but neither is 100% correct > so I'm tossing my hat in the ring. > > find . -type f | xargs chmod u=rwx,g+rx,o=
To be completely safe you should use null separators to account for
files with spaces.
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod ...
Corey
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