On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:12:58PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: > I'd like to cron a process that looks at a certain folder every day and > changes the perms on a directory if they aren't what I want. > Unfortunately, the people creating the folders are Windows folks using > WinSCP, and so they create folders with spaces in them. (E.g. Day 1, Day > 2, etc.) > > I thought I could just do this: > chmod 755 `find /path/to/dirs -type d` > > but find returns a directory name of Day, Day, Day, which (obviously) > doesn't work. > > >From the cli, find returns the actual directory name. > > How can I get find to return the dirs correctly in a script? Or is there > some other way to do this that would work? > > Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
find /path/to/dirs -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755 Thanks, Josh -- Josh Tolbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/ Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. -- Helen Keller _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
