Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 17:18:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Dennis <jimd@mistery.mcafee.com> To: robin@is.co.za Cc: mac@nibsc.ac.uk, garth@dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au, questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: running gag: chmod -R .\* Message-ID: <199605110018.RAA19253@mistery.mcafee.com> In-Reply-To: <199605101316.PAA00755@admin.is.co.za> from "Robin Lunn" at May 10, 96 03:16:15 pm
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> mac@nibsc.ac.uk wrote:
> > >find . -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \;
find ... | xargs chmod 0644
is often faster (and easier to type then quoting the
braces under bash).
'-exec' can often be replaced by '| xargs' and will often
be much faster.
You might (very occasionally) bump into files with
embedded whitespace in them (bad!). GNU 'find' and 'xargs'
support a switches to pass the files as ASCIIZ strings
(null-terminated) -- or I think there's a way to make 'find'
die on the first *bad* file.
Jim Dennis,
System Administrator,
McAfee Associates
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