Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 17:32:04 +0100 (BST) From: <mac@nibsc.ac.uk> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk, kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, branson@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov, dbrockus@m1.sprynet.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please Help ... I am locked out of a FreeBSD machine Message-ID: <199605091632.RAA12281@chalsig.nibsc.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <199605090333.NAA01970@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at May 9, 96 01:03:57 pm
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>From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
>Subject: Re: Please Help ... I am locked out of a FreeBSD machine
>To: fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
>Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 13:03:57 +0930 (CST)
>Cc: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, branson@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov,
> dbrockus@m1.sprynet.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>
>James Raynard stands accused of saying:
>> > Branson> chmod 644 -R .??*
>>
>> I prefer chmod 644 -R .[a-zA-Z]* myself
>
># chmod 644 -R .[^.]* *
>
>(csh at least)
All shells, and no compilcated [] expresssions:-
chmod 0644 -R `ls -A`
does _exactly what's required.
Mac
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