Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:33:14 +0000 From: Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: Josh Tolbert <hemi@puresimplicity.net> Cc: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: find returns unusable result Message-ID: <45E6113A.2060500@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070228231635.GB73748@just.puresimplicity.net> References: <D29D90080F802A4D1BBB3EDE@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <20070228231635.GB73748@just.puresimplicity.net>
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Josh Tolbert wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:12:58PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> I'd like to cron a process that looks at a certain folder every day and
>> changes the perms on a directory if they aren't what I want.
>> Unfortunately, the people creating the folders are Windows folks using
>> WinSCP, and so they create folders with spaces in them. (E.g. Day 1, Day
>> 2, etc.)
>>
>> I thought I could just do this:
>> chmod 755 `find /path/to/dirs -type d`
>>
>> but find returns a directory name of Day, Day, Day, which (obviously)
>> doesn't work.
>>
>> >From the cli, find returns the actual directory name.
>>
>> How can I get find to return the dirs correctly in a script? Or is there
>> some other way to do this that would work?
>>
>> Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
>
> find /path/to/dirs -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755
>
or just
find /path/to/dirs -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
should do it.
> Thanks,
>
> Josh
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