[ale] chmod question

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Dow Hurst wrote:
> How come you don't have to do this:
> 
> find . \( -type f \) -exec chmod 666 {} \;

The only time I've ever known that you needed parens (escaped) within a 
find was with logical combinations as in:

find . \( -type f -o -type d \) -exec chmod 666 () \;

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
Building secure systems in spite of Microsoft