Ken Herron wrote, > 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
Ken, Yep, I was using a non-GNU version of find, so Henry's solution, while elegant, wasn't appropriate for my platform. The solution you gave worked perfectly! Thanks! Richard _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
