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sorry.. | xargs chmod instead of | xargs | chmod ...

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 16:14 +0200, Julien Cigar wrote:
> find your_dir -type (f|d) | xargs | chmod ...
> 
> or
> 
> find your_dir -type (f|d) -exec chmod {} \;
> 
> On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 13:56 +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > How do I chmod separately files and directories?
> > 
> > If I use chmod -R 644 then it will go through all the subdirectories 
> > assigning everything 644 permissions, directories including.
> > 
> > Many thanks!
> > 
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