Neil,
Neil Greenwood wrote:
> My wife says I have a good memory for useless things, but can't
> remember anything useful, so obviously the text notation of chmod is
> too useful.
LOL!
Tony.
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On 08/06/07, Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Neil,
>
> Neil Greenwood wrote:
>
> > I guess that the reason for the alternative is that some people can't
> > cope with the octal notation (or maybe the octal notation was added as
> > a shortcut later), but the chmod command is ancient (at le
Neil,
Neil Greenwood wrote:
> I guess that the reason for the alternative is that some people can't
> cope with the octal notation (or maybe the octal notation was added as
> a shortcut later), but the chmod command is ancient (at least 25
> years), so I'm not sure.
My guess is that the octal no
Friends >>> Came across this news item about Dell Ubuntu:
http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=7902
which also contains reference to this Dell-site video:
http://tinyurl.com/24uyxb
(Navigate on right to -> 'Home' / News You Can Use / Linux 101)
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> Ah, right! I'd missed the the fact that -exec was a condition of
> 'find'; glad I didn't try using it to pipe other stuff into! 'Find' is
> clearly powerful, but a bit of a portmanteau, and it's easy to miss the
> significance of its conditions in the four pages of material in 'Linux
> in
So this idea occurred to me while I was flicking through some leaflets I got
in the post:
What is we gave free training, certification and incentives to all the
numerous pay-per-incident support companies that daily help Windows users
with viruses, adware, basic stuff?
There's GeekSquad, there's
Neil Greenwood wrote:
> I think the default for directories is 755, the default for files
> should be 644. The default is set using the umask command, in case you
> wanted to know.
Yes, those defaults would make sense - everyone can at least see what's
in directories, and read files, but not auto
On 08/06/07, luxxius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I see now why the Ubuntu default is 755 (all the digits odd) -
> everyone can, for starters, see the directories and their contents.
I think the default for directories is 755, the default for files
should be 644. The default is set using the u
Robert McWilliam wrote:
> The escaped semi colon just marks the end of the command to -exec, as
> you figured. Each time find gets a result, it runs the commands in the
> -exec options replacing the {} with the path to the result (there are
> other things, e.g. inode number, that you can substitute
