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 automatically run executable
files; and only owners can modify files.
>> I do have one remaining question... what is the function of ' {} \; '
> Robert answered this rather well, and more succinctly than I would have :-)
> The only point to note is that -exec is part of the find command, so
> you can't use it with other ways of getting a list of files.
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 a Nutshell'!
Many thanks to you and Robert for the extremely useful on-line seminar!.
(I do hope the content of this thread is not too 'off topic' on this
list - apologies if it is; but it has been so helpful to me, and I hope
to others who are also learning.)
Best wishes
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Diana
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