Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 00:48:54 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: find returns unusable result Message-ID: <20070302004854.7aad2d35@localhost> In-Reply-To: <D29D90080F802A4D1BBB3EDE@utd59514.utdallas.edu> References: <D29D90080F802A4D1BBB3EDE@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
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On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:12:58 -0600
Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> wrote:
> 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.
And for completeness sake, if you want to change the delimiter in your (bash*)
shell, set IFS to something else , eg
export IFS=|
so now, instead of breaking Day and 2 apart, they'll be considered 1 list item.
Which of course may bring other problems... but :)
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