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From: Robin Lunn <robin@is.co.za>
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Subject: Re: running gag: chmod -R .\*
To: garth@dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au (Garth Kidd)
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 08:28:13 +0200 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <960510143531.ZM2871@jolt.systems.sa.gov.au> from "Garth Kidd" at May 10, 96 02:16:23 pm
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Garth Kidd wrote:
> > Unless the argument list is too long.  :-(
> > 
> > 	ls -A | xargs chmod 0644 -R

ls -A shows directory names with a : before listing the files.

> Aah, but what about .files in subdirectories?
> 
>   #!/bin/csh
>   foreach a (`find . -type d -print`)
>     cd $a
>     chmod 0644 `/bin/ls -1Ad`
>   end
> 
> Note that find won't follow symlinked directories, which is probably a good 
> thing.

find . -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \;

This finds all files and ignores directories like .. and such.  It doesn't
depend on any shell either.
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