Re: enhancement request for gnu chmod

[Philip Rowlands]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Doug McLaren wrote:

> Right now, the best way to do what I'm referring to is something like
> this --
>
>   find /directory -type d -print0 | xargs --no-run-if-empty -0 chmod 755
>   find /directory '!' -type d '!' -type l -print0 | \
>      xargs --no-run-if-empty -0 chmod 644

If your directories have any eXecute bit already set, which they 
probably do, this will work:

$ chmod --recursive a+rX /directory

The "X" meaning "execute only if the file is a directory or already has 
execute permission for some user (X)" (from man chmod(1)).


Cheers,
Phil