<quote who="Simon Wong">

> So, if I only want to change the execute bit on the directories and not
> on any files in there...what tricky command could I use??
> 
> I was thinking of using find with -exec chmod but it doesn't look like
> it can only find directories?

Oh, good call. The one I offered was a very casual way of doing it, now I
realise. ;)

  find -type d -exec chmod a+x {} ;

- Jeff

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