Re: [newbie] very very very basic question about ls

2001-12-02 Thread Anuerin G.Diaz
hi navin, from what i gather this is what you want to do: you have a directory like this a-b -c-b -c-d -c-d-b and you want to change the permissions of all instances of b (sort of they fill a certain naming requirement, right?). if this is the case then you can use a

[newbie] very very very basic question about ls

2001-11-29 Thread Navin
Hello people I have a problem and am trying to fix something A directories I have on my /home/navin/apps/JBoss directory has entries of files and directories. Now some of these directories do not have x in the permission. I do not know how they got stripped off or if they were not present at

[newbie] very very very basic question about ls

2001-11-29 Thread Navin
Hello people I have a problem and am trying to fix something A directories I have on my /home/navin/apps/JBoss directory has entries of files and directories. Now some of these directories do not have x in the permission. So it doesn't let me change to that directory with cd. I get a