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Re: File and directory permissions



On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:10:26AM +0000, Martin Alfke wrote:
> You wrote:
> 
> > From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
> > Subject: Re: File and directory permissions
> 
> What Martin sent in will work only if there are no white spaces 
> in file- and directory-names.
> 
> I would prefer this one:
> 
> find [path] -type d -printf '"%p"\n' | xargs chmod 755
> 
> (Please try first if %p is the correct term. Maybe
> %n is the correct substitution.)

or if some of your filenames have "\n" characters in them:

find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755

-- 
Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>


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