Hi,
* Daniel D Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-05-01 00:04]:
>So, the primary question is, is there an easy way to set the permission on
>directories, only directories, and all sub-directories? A related question
>is how to use ls to list only directories.
You should try to find(1) the directories. Something like
find startDir -type d -exec chmod $perm {} \;
might work (untested), but you should really check find(1)'s manpage
to learn more about it.
>And if anyone's in a 'splaining mood, here's another one: how do you set all
>files so that the group permissions match the user permissions? (If you have
>three files who's permissions are, for example, 700, 600, 500, and you want
>them to be 770, 660, 550 respectively.)
First thought: Parse the output of ls, feed it into chmod.
Perl might be useful here.
Thorsten
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