On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 12:29:40PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: > %% Dave Carrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> BTW, the best way to do what you wanted to do is this: > >> > >> $ chmod -R o-owx .[!.]* > > dc> Or even better, ignore the -R in the chmod command and use find: > > dc> find . -print0 | xargs -0 chmod r-owx > > Not to be argumentative, but what's better about it?
While I won't presume to judge which is better, there is a difference: The chmod -R version will affect .foo/bar and ignore foo/.bar (it looks only at names in the directory where the command is issued) while the find version will leave .foo/bar alone and change foo/.bar (it looks at each filename independently).
