On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 02:06:07PM +0000, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a directory with some sub directories and all of those have one or more shells scripts.
> This script need the execute bit set so I thought a simple chmod -R -v +x ping/*.sh would do it, NOT :-(
^^^^^^^^^
I think the problem is there.
The shell expands "ping/*.sh", so chmod only "sees" the files
matching that pattern (i.e. some *.sh directly beneath ping)
gets hit.
Now the -R of chmod doesn't support patterns -- so that wouldn't
be a viable option either.
I'd recommend using the more flexible find, like so:
find ping -type f -name "*.sh" -exec chmod -v +x {} +
or somesuch.
Cheers
-- t
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