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Old 03-01-2009, 10:46 AM   #1
marvelade
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combining find with chmod, but doesn't work...


Hi all,

I found a thread on this forum telling me how to chmod directories separately from files.

Quote:
find [YOURDIR] -type d | chmod 755 [files] \;

find [YOURDIR] -type f | chmod 644 [files] \;
In my case I want all subdirectories of the dir I'm in, to be 766, and all files must be 040 (long story why they need to be like this ).

I issued this command:

Code:
find ./ -type f | chmod -R 040 *
but instead of chmod'ing only the files, it alters everything; directories too.

What am I doing wrong? could it be the -R parameter of chmod?



best regards,
Marvelade
 
Old 03-01-2009, 11:02 AM   #2
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Since find will march down the dir structure and give you all files (type f), there's no need for the recursive option to chmod.

Code:
find . -type f -exec chmod 040 {} \;
 
  


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