Bash Script
Vivek J. Patankar
list307 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 11 00:12:29 UTC 2007
I wrote:
> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>> Vivek J. Patankar schrieb:
>>> John Pierce wrote:
>>>> Does anyone know of a bash script that will recurse through a series
>>>> of directories and strip the executable bit from the files in those
>>>> directories and not the directories.
>>> This worked for me.
>>>
>>> $ find /path -type f -print | xargs chmod ugo-x
>>
>> Caution, be aware of file names with spaces ;)
>
> You're right... doesn't work with spaces in file names.
A quick peek at the xargs man pages and we have a winner. :-)
$ find /path -xdev -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod ugo-x
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Regards,
विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)
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