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No no... the problem is they are all executable and I don't want them executable. I wanted to be able to quickly make all of them in not executable while still leaving the permisions of other files inside intact.
Distribution: RH 6.2, Gen2, Knoppix,arch, bodhi, studio, suse, mint
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you probably made a typo.
the {} replaces the results of the find command there,
then a space then backslash and no space before the
semi-colon
i run a command similar to that all the time.
a lot of times it's hard to see the spaces and it's
hard to know which spaces are important.
here, the really important one is lack of space
between the \and the;
yea, i just checked it.
if i add a space between the backslash and semi-colon
i get the error "missing argument to -exec"
take it out and it works.
Distribution: RH 6.2, Gen2, Knoppix,arch, bodhi, studio, suse, mint
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i think the semicolon signifies the end of the command
for -exec, and the backslash is to keep the semicolon
from being interpreted otherwise.
just unix weirdness
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