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Re: Shortcut for recursive change of directories' SGID
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: Shortcut for recursive change of directories' SGID |
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Mon, 27 Feb 2017 00:56:48 -0800 |
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On 14/02/17 03:48, Reuti wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the usual approach to change recursively the SGID bits of directories only
> seems to be:
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> find -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -r chmod g+s
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> to avoid that files will it get assigned too. Was there ever the idea to have
> a shortcut for it like:
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> chmod -R g+S (set SGID bit for directories only)
> chmod -D g+s (--dir-recursive do it recursively like -R, but work on
> directories only)
These were previously discussed at:
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rejected_requests.html#chmod
thanks,
Pádraig