Re: bash command substitution problem

[Phil Dyer <phil.dyer@cox.net>]

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Pollywog said:
> I have a function defined in my .bashrc as:
> 
> function lf { /bin/ls -l | grep "^-" ; }
> 
> It prints the files in the CWD without listing other directories.
> 
> Suppose I want to 'chmod 600' all the files in the CWD without affecting 
> directories, I try this:
> 
> chmod 600 `lf`
> 
> but I get this error:
> chmod: invalid character `w' in mode string `-rw-------'

yeah, the ls -l listing is getting you when you display.

try this one.

function lsf {
    for i in *; do
        if [ -f "$i" ]; then
            echo "$i"
        fi;
    done;
}

lsf | xargs chmod 600


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/phil


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