On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 01:00:10PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Kyle <[email protected]> writes: >
[snip]
>
> There is a limit to the number of arguments you can pass to chmod,
> though, so it is generally speaking better to structure that like this:
>
> find -name '*.jpg' | xargs chmod -R 644
>
> That falls apart if any of your filenames have spaces in them, though,
> since xargs splits on *any* whitespace; to work around that use:
>
> find -name '*.jpg' -print0 | xargs -0 chmod -R 644
>
> See the manual pages for the fine detail, obviously.
find \( -name '*.jpg' -a -exec chmod 644 "{}" \; \) -o \( -type d -exec
chmod 775 "{}" \; \)
but this execs for each file rather inefficient, but no worries about
command line length nor about white spaces.
One tool many paths
Alex
I intentionally left out the second -a
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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