find / -name *.test

Bonestein · 03-23-2006, 10:03 AM

What I am trying to do is take the output of

find / -name *.test

and change the permissions on each file

like a

find / -name *.test | chmod 751

but that doesn't work. so does anyone know how to make it work?

P.S. Each .test file is in a different directory and subfolder

reddazz · 03-23-2006, 10:14 AM

You would do something like this

Code:

#find / -name "*.test" -exec chmod 751 {} \;

mikshaw · 03-23-2006, 10:18 AM

Just for the sake of options, here's another way:

Code:

for i in `find / -name *.test`; do chmod 751 $i;done

Bonestein · 03-23-2006, 10:18 AM

Thanks for the help

this worked

find / -name \*.test -exec chmod 755 {} \;