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To: branson@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov, kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
Subject: Re: Please Help ... I am locked out of a FreeBSD machine
Cc: dbrockus@m1.sprynet.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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|>      Branson> chmod 644 -R .??*
|>  
|>      Branson>  the '?'s will require two characters in the file
|>      Branson> name.. not just one which very effectively skips '.' and
|>      Branson> '..'.
|>  
|>  But it unfortunately misses all entries with a name of . followed by a
|>  single character: .a, .b, .c, etc.  But, hey, close enough!  Do those
|>  by hand, I say!

Or try something like:

	find .* -name '..' -prune -o -print | xargs chmod 644
	
Depending on the current ownership and permissions in the directory tree,
you might want to insert "-depth" before the "-name" to get a depth-first
traversal.



-Pat