"Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, the best way to do what you wanted to do is this: > > $ chmod -R o-owx .[!.]*
Or even better, ignore the -R in the chmod command and use find: find . -print0 | xargs -0 chmod r-owx -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | YOW!! Everybody out of the UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-DNS | GENETIC POOL! Seattle, WA, USA | http://www.rudedog.org/ |