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

[djperkins at americanisp.net]

> 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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Try it.  It appears to work that way, at least the GNU find seems to.