The sequence find ..... -exec seems safe enough though.
I suspect it just uses the inode numbers rather than the file name or
something (but beware this is on Solaris ;)
bash-2.05$ find thingy -type f -exec file {} \;
thingy/one/this: empty file
thingy/two/; file thingy: empty file
thingy/three/that: empty file
bash-2.05$ ls -lR thingy
thingy:
total 6
drwxrwxr-x 2 rowling staff 512 Aug 12 17:22 one
drwxrwxr-x 2 rowling staff 512 Aug 12 17:22 three
drwxrwxr-x 2 rowling staff 512 Aug 12 17:22 two
thingy/one:
total 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 rowling staff 0 Aug 12 17:22 this
thingy/three:
total 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 rowling staff 0 Aug 12 17:22 that
thingy/two:
total 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 rowling staff 0 Aug 12 17:22 ; file thingy
bash-2.05$
- Jill
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Jill Rowling, System Administrator
Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia
Level 2, 55 Mentmore Ave Rosebery NSW 2018
Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew McNaughton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 12 August 2003 5:08 PM
To: Norman Gaywood
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ram Smith
Subject: Re: [SLUG] recursively change file permissions not directories
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Norman Gaywood wrote:
> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:50:01 +1000
> From: Norman Gaywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Ram Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] recursively change file permissions not
> directories
>
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:32:06AM +1000, Ram Smith wrote:
> > I have a shared directory structure where alot of the files in each
> > directory have permisions of 644 I wanting to change it so that the
> > files are chmod 664 letting all users in the group read and write to
> > the data. without nuking the permissions on the directories along
> > with the files.
>
> The way to do this properly, as others are showing, is with a:
>
> find . -type f | xargs chmod 644
This is not doing things properly and is highly dangerous. eg:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] touch ";chmod u+sx"
[ some time later ]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] find . -type f | xargs chmod 644
Andrew McNaughton
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