Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!timbuk!hrp
From: hrp@cray.com (Hal Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Too many words from `` (csh)
Summary: Use xargs.
Message-ID: <HRP.91Mar5091740@pecan03.cray.com>
Date: 5 Mar 91 16:00:39 GMT
References: <1991Mar3.235738.9657@csis.dit.csiro.au> <21658@teda.UUCP>
Followup-To: comp.unix.misc
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Lines: 15
In-reply-to: mikel@teda.UUCP's message of 5 Mar 91 02:23:59 GMT

In article <21658@teda.UUCP> mikel@teda.UUCP (Mikel Lechner) writes:

	   find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ';'

   However, this will run a bit slower, since it will create a new chmod
   process for each file encountered.  But, it will work.

If you have xargs, this is better:

	find . -type f -print | xargs chmod 644
--
Hal Peterson			Internet:  hrp@cray.com
Cray Research, Inc.		Telephone:  +1 612 683 5440
	In any given time, most people have accepted the cruellest wrongs
	as right.					-Andrea Dworkin