Re: Bash script problem

[David <bouncingcats@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 at 10:58, Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org> wrote:
> On 8/6/21 2:52 AM, David wrote:

> > I was commenting on how I have always been puzzled why
> > someone made the effort to give 'chmod' an '-R' option, but
> > never made it actually useful for common cases. As it is,
> > it seems that it's really only useful for modifying the write attribute.
>
> Hmm. "chmod -R go-rwx ." also seems to be useful...
> Just an example.

Thanks for the replies, which give me clues to things I might
have not considered.

I'm the only human user on my machines, so
managing other users isn't something I think about much.