From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 13 10:22:47 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE89816A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 10:22:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com (webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com [205.158.62.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BB7143D31 for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 10:22:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fteg@london.com) Received: from wfilter.us4.outblaze.com (wfilter.us4.outblaze.com [205.158.62.180])7E793180013D for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 10:22:46 +0000 (GMT) X-OB-Received: from unknown (205.158.62.49) by wfilter.us4.outblaze.com; 13 Mar 2005 10:22:46 -0000 Received: by ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7254B4BE6D; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 10:22:46 +0000 (GMT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com with http for fteg@london.com; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 05:22:46 -0500 From: "Fafa Diliha Romanova" To: "Loren M. Lang" Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 05:22:46 -0500 X-Originating-Ip: 127.0.0.1 X-Originating-Server: ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com Message-Id: <20050313102246.7254B4BE6D@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chmod equivalent to find commands X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 10:22:47 -0000 Thank you for your kind assistance! That was exactly what I was looking for. But after the constructive response from many other kind souls on this list, I have decided to stick with my find command for now and keep your recursive chmod as an alternate. I keep a local mirror of all my modified configuration files (gives me easy backup and a great deal control over my system). I needed this command to quickly change permissions and ownership of the homedir I store them in. Thanks again! -- Fafa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Loren M. Lang" To: "Fafa Diliha Romanova" Subject: Re: chmod equivalent to find commands Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 02:09:12 -0800 >=20 > On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 06:53:59AM -0500, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: > > hello. > > > > i know there's an equivalent to these two find commands that > > can be summed up in one chmod command: > > > > find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; > > find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; >=20 > The EXACT equivalent would be: >=20 > find . -type d -exec chmod u=3Drwx,go=3Drx {} \; > find . -type f -exec chmod u=3Drw,go=3Dr {} \; >=20 > But I take it that that isn't exactly what your looking for. Your > probably looking for something like "chmod -R u=3DrwX,go=3DrX ." >=20 > > > > it fixes my permissions ... > > i haven't tested this yet but i think it's wrong: chmod -R u+rwX,a+rX >=20 > This may work it depends on exactly what you need to do and how bad your > permissions are messed up. Instead of a+rX, it might be better to do > go+rX since you already have u covered, but I don't think it will make a > big difference. Also, this adds to the existing permissions, it won't > take away any permissions like my example earlier does. Lastly, the big > difference between this and the find version is that the find version, > both mine and yours, will set the execute bit on all directories and not > on any normal files where the recursive chmod with the X permission with > set the x permission on any file/directory that already has at least one > type of execute permission already set and not on any other files or > directories. So if your permissions are messed so badly that you have > directories without any execute permission, this won't fix that. The > find version on the other hand will ignore everything that is not a > normal file or directory (i.e. fifos, sockets, device files), but this > probably won't be a big deal either. The single recursive chmod I gave > you will most likely be what you need. >=20 > > > > what would be the best solution here? > > > > thanks, > > -- fafa > > > > -- ___________________________________________________________ > > Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com > > http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd= .org" >=20 > -- > I sense much NT in you. > NT leads to Bluescreen. > Bluescreen leads to downtime. > Downtime leads to suffering. > NT is the path to the darkside. > Powerful Unix is. >=20 > Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc > Fingerprint: CEE1 AAE2 F66C 59B5 34CA C415 6D35 E847 0118 A3D2 >=20 << 2.dat >> --=20 ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm