On 1/20/06, Corey Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To be completely safe you should use null separators to account for > files with spaces. > > find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod ... > > Corey
Beautiful. I was about to complain that xargs wasn't a good solution (though faster) because it won't handle file names with spaces. But you've just exposed this blissful nugget of truth and made my year. Thank you from the bottom of my shoes, -Bryan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
