Subject: Re: access priveleges -- part 2
From: Howard Schultens (hs@neuro-physiol.med.uni-goettingen.de)
Date: Tue Oct 31 2000 - 04:32:19 EST
I just posted:
>andrew morgan wrote:
>>
>> .....
>>
>> Also, you probably don't want the setgid bit for files, just directories.
>> You can fix this by going to the top-level directory you want to make the
>> change and running:
>>
>> find ./ -type f | xargs chmod 770
>>
>> Andy
>
>
>I tried this out, and in its present form it doesn't work with
>Apple filenames that have embedded blanks. There must
>be a trick to escape the blanks in this command -- can you help me out
>here?
This seems to do it:
find ./ -type f -exec chmod 770 '{}' \;
Note: SINGLE quotes are necessary, as is escaping the semicolon.
-- Howard
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