On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 12:38 +1000, Scott Ragen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/07/2007 11:05:17 AM: > > > Something new every day! > > > > A bunch of .NEF files downloaded from my Nikon Camera appeared as mod > > 700 > > > > I did: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ sudo chmod -R 666 Desktop/070701.Reina/NEF/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ls -l Desktop/070701.Reina/NEF/ > > total 0 > > ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? Desktop/070701.Reina/NEF/a03.NEF > > > > ... etc..... > > > > For some reason the u+x bit has to be set or nothing works. I've tried > > all the combinations and can't quite understand what's going on. > > > Hi Dave, > My guess is you are setting the permissions to 666 on both the directory > and files. > Execute is required to recurse into directories.
Your guess is correct.... just needed a * at the end. I made a bad assumption about how the -R would work. Thanks -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
