Changing Permissions

jong357 · 01-25-2005, 01:14 PM

Greets.

I have a directory with files where certain ones need to have the permissions changed. Everything thats 775 I want to be 755, likewise 664 to 644...

cd directory
find . -perm 775 | xargs chmod 755
find . -perm 664 | xargs chmod 644

That doesn't work and by all rights it should... It errors out stating that that it wants some additional chmod arguments... Suggestions? Theres quite a few of them. I really don't want to do it by hand.... Thanks for your feedback.

Jon

leonscape · 01-25-2005, 01:27 PM

Works for me, but only if there are files to change, thats when I get the error your reporting.

Try the find on its own and see whats actually being listed.

jong357 · 01-25-2005, 01:36 PM

Hah,hah... Ahhhh.. Funny. Sometimes you just need to state the obvious I guess...

I did alot of stuff last night and forgot I had done that already. Found the commands in my bash_history... Thanks...

Tinkster · 01-25-2005, 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by leonscape
Works for me, but only if there are files to change, thats when I get the error your reporting.

Try the find on its own and see whats actually being listed.

To avoid the errors give the pipe a miss ...

Instead of

Code:

find . -perm 775 | xargs chmod 755

use

Code:

find . -perm 775 -exec chmod 755 {} \;

(quite frankly I find that more elegant, too ;})...

Cheers,
Tink

jong357 · 01-25-2005, 02:20 PM

Nice... Thanks Tink. Using consecutive commands like I mentioned above in a script will result in it bombing out, or rather, it just freezes. After leonscape posted, I realized I had another problem. You must have read my mind.

I spoke too soon. It still freezes up. Crap. That irritates me.

Ahh... Problem with some other command down the line. Nevermind. Need to put the computer down. Just not thinking clearly today. Thanks again.

Tinkster · 01-25-2005, 02:39 PM

If you have files with spaces (or other 'stupid' characters)
in the name in that directory try putting "" around {} ...

Cheers,
Tink