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On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, aphro wrote:
> What i wanna do ..is 2 things
>
> find all files in a directory tree and chmod them 644
>
> find all directories in a directory tree and chmod them 775
[...]
> find . -exec chmod u+wx {} -type f
>
> to no avail ..no matter what i do it keeps saying its "missing argument to
> `-exec' i've tried escaping it with \ tried single and double quotes,
> tried calling a single command with no arguements i moved the -exec
> command to the end of the find command ARGH NOTHING! There are about 5,000
> files i need to modify.
Try
find -type f | xargs chmod u+wx
should go a little bit faster, since chmod will not be executet for each
file seperately.
Martin
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If Windows is the answer, can we please have the problem back?
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