[CLUE-Tech] bash - find, xargs, chmod

Lynn Danielson lynn.danielson at clue.denver.co.us
Fri Nov 22 08:27:04 MST 2002


On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 22:41, Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> Lynn Danielson wrote:
> > 
> > find -type d -exec chmod 2770 {} \;
> 
> ....  I wasn't aware, however, that if I left out the starting
> directory, that find would use the current directory.

Opps, my mistake.  Find doesn't use the current directory 
by default, I simply left out the "." for current path.

Lynn




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