hiya marin
> > if you only wanted to change the local dot files... oh well...
> > we all learn and remember the hard way... :-)
> > shoulda been: chmod pattern ~/.*
>
> NO. ~/.* includes .. ~/.. too, if expanded by the shell. In this case this
> would be /root/.. which is nothing els but / ... the same mess again :-)
yes...
there's few ways to do it...
problem with that find below is it pick up .elm, .ssh, .netscape
directories too
so the find has to be told files only ( -type f )
which means the "-not" options should not be needed
find ~ -name ".*" -type f -exec ls -la {}\; -or-
find ~ -name ".*" -type f -ls
if that works... ( picks out what you want ... ) than...
find ~ -name ".*" -type f -exec chmod pattern {}\;
might(will) be easier to explicitly specify the list of files you
want directly to chmod since you could have dozens of various dot files
and dot dirs
have fun
alvin
> find -name ".*" -not -name ".." -not -name "." -maxdepth 1
>
> is one way to get all dot-files and dot dirs in the same dir, this piped
> through a
>
> xargs chmod -R o-rwx
>
> will do what the "chmod -R o-rwx .*" was supposed to do in the original
> post...
>
> Martin
>
