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RFE: chmod "-D" operate on dir's only |
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Tue, 24 May 2011 18:57:02 -0700 |
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I know one can (and I usually do) construct a find command to do
this, but it's something I do so often, and it's a natural 'pair'
for what is often done with chmod.
If I want to make sure a dir tree is readable/accessable
by a group or other, I usually do:
chmod -R g+r,o+r .
find . -type d -print0|xargs -0 chmod g+x,o+x
What'd be a great addition to chmod is for it to have an option
for chmod to only work on dirs. (is -D taken?)
So instead of the 2nd line above:
chmod -DR g+x,o+x
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What'cha think?
Is that a useful and logical addition for chmod?
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Re: bug#8729: RFE: chmod "-D" operate on dir's only |
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Wed, 25 May 2011 09:22:28 +0100 |
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On 25/05/11 02:57, Linda Walsh wrote:
> I know one can (and I usually do) construct a find command to do
> this, but it's something I do so often, and it's a natural 'pair'
> for what is often done with chmod.
>
> If I want to make sure a dir tree is readable/accessable
> by a group or other, I usually do:
>
> chmod -R g+r,o+r .
> find . -type d -print0|xargs -0 chmod g+x,o+x
>
> What'd be a great addition to chmod is for it to have an option
> for chmod to only work on dirs. (is -D taken?)
>
> So instead of the 2nd line above:
>
> chmod -DR g+x,o+x
This was discussed before (the link is down ATM):
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-02/msg00201.html
IIRC `chmod -R go+rX .` was deemed sufficient.
That will have the caveat of making existing executables,
executable by everyone.
I'll close this for now.
thanks,
Pádraig.
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