On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 at 10:58, Christian Groessler <ch...@groessler.org> 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. Thanks for the replies, which give me clues to things I might have not considered. I'm the only human user on my machines, so managing other users isn't something I think about much.
