On Thu, 20 Mar 1997 02:27:01 EST Matt Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
 wrote:

> At 11:11 PM 3/19/97 -0800, Philippe Troin wrote:
> 
> >Either:
> >     find <dir> -type d | xargs chmod a+rx
> 
> I'd use "find <dir> -type d -exec chmod a+rx {} \;"

This will spawn a process per directory, vs very few...

> (I've had problems with xargs)

Which problems ?

Note that if you have few directories in your tree, you might also:
        chmod a+rx `find <dir> -type d`

Phil.

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