file permissions

[Hans Fugal]

Or if you prefer

    find . -type f | while read i; do xargs chmod "$i"; done

This isn't as robust as null-termination (what if the filename has " in
it?), this idiom is nice to know because it comes in very handy.

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 at 11:45 -0700, Bryan Sant wrote:
> On 1/20/06, Corey Edwards <tensai at zmonkey.org> wrote:
> > To be completely safe you should use null separators to account for
> > files with spaces.
> >
> >         find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod ...
> >
> > Corey
> 
> Beautiful.  I was about to complain that xargs wasn't a good solution
> (though faster) because it won't handle file names with spaces.  But
> you've just exposed this blissful nugget of truth and made my year.
> 
> Thank you from the bottom of my shoes,
> -Bryan
> 
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