Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:57:06 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: find returns unusable result Message-ID: <9529489268CFF4F3B1EB1452@utd59514.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070228231635.GB73748@just.puresimplicity.net> References: <D29D90080F802A4D1BBB3EDE@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <20070228231635.GB73748@just.puresimplicity.net>
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--==========B68425C5F1AD1808F2E2========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On Wednesday, February 28, 2007 17:16:35 -0600 Josh Tolbert=20 <hemi@puresimplicity.net> 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? > > find /path/to/dirs -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755 > Thanks, Josh. That worked exactly as I wanted. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ --==========B68425C5F1AD1808F2E2==========--
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