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From: pvo@uther.CS.ORST.EDU (Paul V O'Neill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Testing execute permission from csh
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Date: 6 May 89 06:33:15 GMT
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Reply-To: pvo@oce.orst.edu                   (Paul V O'Neill)
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In article <19486@adm.BRL.MIL> Kemp@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:
>
>I want to change all the files to have world read permission, and all
>the executables to have world execute.  I tried the following in csh as
>root:
>
> # foreach f (*)
> ? if -x $f chmod o+x $f
> ? end
>
>     (I am using SunOS 4.0.1, if it matters.)
>

Why test?
From the 4.0 man pages:

     X    Give execute permission if the file is a  directory  or
          if  there  is  execute  permission for one of the other
          user classes.

Try 		# chmod o+X *


Paul O'Neill                 pvo@oce.orst.edu
Coastal Imaging Lab
OSU--Oceanography
Corvallis, OR  97331         503-754-3251