There's apparently a bug with chmod's use of recursion. Apparently, it doesn't work.
Let's say I have a directory called 'test', with three subdirectories called 'alpha', 'bravo', and 'charlie'. Each subdirectory has two files in it: 'alpha' has 'a1.txt' and 'a2.txt', 'bravo' has 'b1.txt' and 'b2.txt', and 'charlie' has 'c1.txt' and 'c2.txt'. All directories have permissions 775 and all files have permissions 644. If I'm in 'test' and do: chmod -R 777 *.txt I get the message: chmod: getting attributes of `*.txt': No such file or directory If I put a file called 't1.txt' in the 'test' directory, and do the same command, then 't1.txt' gets set to 777 (-rwxrwxrwx), and the error message above does not appear, but none of the files in 'alpha', 'bravo', or 'charlie' get their permissions set to 777. I'm using Red Hat 7.2, and the fileutils package is version 4.1-4. Please let me know if you need any more information about this bug. Thanks. -- - Matt Waggoner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
