On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 04:37:09PM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote:
>
> [snip previous issue]
>
> Well, in Unix you typically string a bunch of simple tools together to
> accomplish complex tasks. You almost had it with your "ls" solution,
> but try "find" instead, and use xargs. Here's how I do what you're
> trying to accomplish:
>
> find <dirname> -depth -type d -print|xargs chmod 770
>
> > And if anyone's in a 'splaining mood, here's another one: how do you set all
> > files so that the group permissions match the user permissions? (If you have
> > three files who's permissions are, for example, 700, 600, 500, and you want
> > them to be 770, 660, 550 respectively.)
>
> This one is tougher, I think. I'd write a script to do it. Maybe
> someone has a brighter idea. The complication here is that there's not
> a good shell command, or unix utility, to simply report the mode of a
> file in numerical form, at least that I'm aware of. You could write
> such a utility pretty easily in C using the "stat()" function, but
> even though it's simple it seems like over kill. Gotta be a better
> way.
No script needed, thanks to the forethought of the authors of chmod:
find <dirname> -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod g=u,o=
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