%% Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ds> On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 12:29:40PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
>> >> 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? ds> While I won't presume to judge which is better, there is a difference: Certainly there's a difference; my second sentence was: > First, your example doesn't do what the OP wanted to do, or what my > example does do. ds> The chmod -R version will affect .foo/bar and ignore foo/.bar (it ds> looks only at names in the directory where the command is issued) Yes, that was exactly the point of my second paragraph. ds> while the find version will leave .foo/bar alone and change ds> foo/.bar (it looks at each filename independently). Not true at all; the find version will change _both_ .foo/bar _and_ foo/.bar. "find ." matches everything in the current directory and below, _including_ hidden files. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Methods & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them.
