On Saturday 11 April 2009 10:00:04 [email protected] 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
Is that a thought experiment ? ... cause I tried it ! exactly as posted James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
