Re: [vox-tech] Shell Scripting Question

[Ken Herron]

--On Friday, June 06, 2003 10:34:36 -0700 Henry House 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 10:28:37AM -0700, Richard Crawford wrote:
find . -name $1 -print | while read i do
  chmod 777 $i
  echo "Modified: $i"
done
Now what I need it to do is to go into only those directories called
"messages" and do the same thing to files in those directories.
This seems like a ideal use for xargs. Try:

	find . -path '*/messages/*' -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 777
That's fine if the host has gnu find and xargs. If it doesn't, and you're 
confident none of the directory names contain white space, then here's a 
more portable method:

        find ... -name messages -type d -print | while read dir
        do
                chmod 777 $dir/*
        done
If these directories contain a huge number of files then the shell may 
balk at expanding that wildcard, in which case you could do:

        find ... -name messages -type d -print | while read dir
        do
                find $dir -type f -exec chmod 777 '{}' ';'
        done
If you're confident that none of the filenames will contain white space, 
the inner find could be replaced with

		find $dir -type f -print | xargs chmod 777

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