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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Setting (Recursively) Modes on Files
Message-ID: <2746@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 27 Dec 90 03:04:02 GMT
References: <FPB.90Dec20120534@ittc.ittc.wec.com> <5389@cuuxb.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <5389@cuuxb.ATT.COM> dmeeks@cuuxb.UUCP (David L. Meeks) writes:

| sure all arguments to 'find' are white-space separated.  I believe
| one could also use:
| 	
| 	find . -type f ! -name "s.*" ! -name "p.*" -print |xargs chmod g+w
| 
| which would also eliminate the 'p.' files from the list.

  Or ! -name '[sp].*' since these are glob format wildcards on names
(shell rules, not regular expressiln rules).
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