On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 02:58:00AM +0200, Christian Groessler wrote: > On 8/6/21 2:52 AM, David wrote: > > I was commenting on how I have always been puzzled why > > someone made the effort to give 'chmod' an '-R' option, but > > never made it actually useful for common cases. As it is, > > it seems that it's really only useful for modifying the write attribute. > > Hmm. "chmod -R go-rwx ." also seems to be useful... > Just an example.
Yeah. The -R option is basically only useful when using relative permission changes, not absolute. It's not an option that you can use very often, but it's not *completely* useless.
