[ale] Baffled on chmod usage

[Jhubbs at niit.com (Jeff Hubbs)]

Fletch -

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- Jeff

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> From: Fletch [mailto:fletch at phydeaux.org]
> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 11:20 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Baffled on chmod usage
> 
> 
> >>>>> "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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