[SOLVED] Finding Muti Files

TheNewGuy2936 · 04-18-2011, 04:22 PM

Ok, so I work with this travel company that host sites for different agents. They have ALL the sites in one directory and each site has its own search.php file. How can I locate, and change all the search.php files permissions to 644 in one shot? Is this possible maybe with the find command? I read the man page for this but I am not sure how to write out the command. Thanks in advanced for the help everyone!

jeff_sadowski · 04-18-2011, 04:35 PM

the find command will work for you in conjunction with the chmod command
cd to the directory that they all live under then run
find ./ -name search.php -exec chmod 644 {} \;
explaining this
find {directory to search} -name {name of file/files to search for} -exec {command to run} {} \;
the \; tells the -exec option that that is the end of that command
the {} is the file/files that find finds

Telengard · 04-18-2011, 04:36 PM

I'd use something like this.

Code:

find -name 'FILENAME' -exec chmod -v 644 '{}' \;

The -v option to chmod will cause it to report each file it executes on.

http://www.gnu.org/software/findutil...l#Run-Commands

TheNewGuy2936 · 04-19-2011, 08:50 AM

Thanks! Those commands did the job! Thank you for your help and explanations! I better understand the find command with those options now!