[ale] Baffled on chmod usage

[fletch at phydeaux.org (Fletch)]

>>>>> "Byron" == Byron A Jeff <byron at cc.gatech.edu> writes:

[...]

    Byron> find and xargs gives a fairly useful combination:

    Byron> find . -name '*.exe' | xargs chmod -v 555

    Byron> The find will generate names for each of the files with an
    Byron> exe extension.  The xargs will then execute the chmod
    Byron> command against every file found.


        Of course with zsh you don't need xargs or the find, you can
just do:

        chmod -v 555 **/*.exe


        The more you use zsh, the less and less you use find and
xargs.  Because zsh simply rules. :)

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