Re: Coreutils-gotchas

[Mike Frysinger]

On 30 Nov 2015 10:37, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/28/2015 11:34 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> > On 11/29/2015 12:16 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > 
> >>> I must collate some gotchas like this.
> >>
> >> Initial list started at:
> >> http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-gotchas.html
> >>
> > 
> > Fantastic list!
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> On the chmod entry, it might also be worth mentioning that:
> 
>  chmod -R a-x,a+X
> 
> works to remove execute permissions on regular files but not
> directories, without needing a 'find'/'xargs' pair.

the xargs usage seems pointless/wasteful to me.  just do:
        find -type f -exec chmod 644 {} +
-mike

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