On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 07:57:09AM +0800, jam wrote: > On Saturday 11 April 2009 00:06:56 [email protected] wrote: > [snip] > > > What am I missing? > > > > find(1), which is used to locate a list of files matching a given set of > > criteria, allowing you to do something like this: > > > > chmod -R 644 `find -name '*.jpg'` > > > > (Note the single-quotes around the glob pattern? Without that the shell > > would expand the pattern, which would cause a syntax error for the find > > command, and not do what you want.) > > > > 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. > > Um sure, but in this context too complicated IMHO > find . -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \; > find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
need "" around the {} for filenames with spaces
>
> which does what he said he wanted to do without fussing about jpgs etc
> "I have a bunch of directories with a bunch of files (pictures) in each.
> I want to set directories to 775 and files to 664."
>
> James
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