Hi, I have a directory with some sub directories and all of those have one or more shells scripts. This script need the execute bit set so I thought a simple chmod -R -v +x ping/*.sh would do it, NOT :-( Why not? ls does not seem to recurce either so it must be something general I am missing First a ls of the ping directory that DOES recurse. -----<quote>--------------------- beheerdertio@einpingme:~$ ls ping -R ping: amssan amsstaf amswan einstud getloss-all.sh getloss.sh hglsan hglstaf hglwan rtmsan rtmstaf rtmwan showloss-today.sh showtime-today.sh utrcity utrjcw utrsan utrstaf utrwan
ping/amssan: pinglog.sh ping/amsstaf: pinglog.sh ping/amswan: pinglog.sh ping/einstud: pinglog.sh ping/hglsan: pinglog.sh ping/hglstaf: pinglog.sh ping/hglwan: pinglog.sh ping/rtmsan: pinglog.sh ping/rtmstaf: pinglog.sh ping/rtmwan: pinglog.sh ping/utrcity: pinglog.sh ping/utrjcw: pinglog.sh ping/utrsan: pinglog.sh ping/utrstaf: pinglog.sh ping/utrwan: pinglog.sh -----<quote>--------------------- So now want only the *.sh (shell script) files beheerdertio@einpingme:~$ ls -R ping/*.sh ping/getloss-all.sh ping/getloss.sh ping/showloss-today.sh ping/showtime-today.sh beheerdertio@einpingme:~$ chmod -R -v +x ping/*.sh mode of 'ping/getloss-all.sh' retained as 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) mode of 'ping/getloss.sh' retained as 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) mode of 'ping/showloss-today.sh' retained as 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) mode of 'ping/showtime-today.sh' retained as 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) -----<quote>--------------------- But neither recurses into the directories. Maybe because none of the directories has a *.sh name, how illogical that sounds, that would make the -R option pretty useless I think. But if that is the case then how do I change all the *.sh files in those directories to an executable, other than doing it one by one. Bonno Bloksma
