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Subject: Re: chmod operation on directories / files
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On Wed, 07 May 2008 16:17:12 +0200
Julien Cigar <jcigar@ulb.ac.be> wrote:

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

It will still fail on a directory name that contains a space (this is
a difference between Gnu and BSD).

You need:

find ... -print0 | xargs -0