On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 at 13:06, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri 06 Aug 2021 at 09:30:17 (+1000), David wrote:
> > 'chmod -R' is less useful because it does not discriminate > > between files and directories, I never understood why it > > does not offer that option, because usually we need all file > > permissions to not be the same as all directory permissions. > > ? > > I thought that was what X is for. A demonstration: [...] > All the directories get execute permission. Thank you very much for alerting me to X. I had never noticed it before. This is why I asked, to get feedback in case I was overlooking something. A few years ago I wrote a shell script to do recursive chmod that allows different permissions to be specified for subdirectories and files under a specified top directory, so I never thought about this issue again after that.
