Re: file permissions

[Jason K Larson]

Hans Fugal wrote:

Or if you prefer

    find . -type f | while read i; do xargs chmod "$i"; done

This isn't as robust as null-termination (what if the filename has " in
it?), this idiom is nice to know because it comes in very handy.

best of both worlds? null seperated argument list to a quoted list.
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0ri chmod "{}"


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