On 25/05/11 02:57, Linda Walsh wrote: > I know one can (and I usually do) construct a find command to do > this, but it's something I do so often, and it's a natural 'pair' > for what is often done with chmod. > > If I want to make sure a dir tree is readable/accessable > by a group or other, I usually do: > > chmod -R g+r,o+r . > find . -type d -print0|xargs -0 chmod g+x,o+x > > What'd be a great addition to chmod is for it to have an option > for chmod to only work on dirs. (is -D taken?) > > So instead of the 2nd line above: > > chmod -DR g+x,o+x
This was discussed before (the link is down ATM): http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-02/msg00201.html IIRC `chmod -R go+rX .` was deemed sufficient. That will have the caveat of making existing executables, executable by everyone. I'll close this for now. thanks, Pádraig.
