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

[Dale Hawkins]

David Willson <dlwillson at thegeek.nu> writes:

> OK, I have a large sub-tree of stuph.  I want the directories set as
> 2770 (rwx and setgid), and the files set as 2660 (rw and setgid).  So I
> launch the following commands:

I think that the X option to chmod would have done the trick as well.

$ chmod -R +Xrw directory_name

The X option (quoting from the man page):

  execute only if the file is a directory or already has execute
  permission for some user (X)

In other words, executables stay executable, and directories get the
executable bit set as well.

-Dale

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