"Paul D. Smith" <pausmith@nortelnetworks.com> writes: > BTW, the best way to do what you wanted to do is this: > > $ chmod -R o-owx .[!.]* Or even better, ignore the -R in the chmod command and use find: find . -print0 | xargs -0 chmod r-owx -- Dave Carrigan (dave@rudedog.org) | YOW!! Everybody out of the UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-DNS | GENETIC POOL! Seattle, WA, USA | http://www.rudedog.org/ |