At 1:38 PM -0400 9/10/07, Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
Daniel Bye wrote:
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 10:01:35PM +0530, Shantanoo Mahajan wrote:
>> # find /usr/local/www/data/wp -type f -exec chmod 644 '{}' \;
# find /usr/local/www/data/wp -type d -exec chmod 755 '{}' \;
To be on safer side. :)
Oh? Safer how? I've never come across that idiom before.
If imange the file or directory name has spaces, (){}-, etc.. in
it or even \.
This is not necessary with -exec in the 'find' command, and the
single-quotes wouldn't have any effect. The {} is a parameter
which is seen by the find command itself. If you add single-quotes
around the {}, those quotes are stripped off by the *shell* before
handing the parameter off to the 'find' command.
Dangerous characters are more of an issue if you do not use the
'-exec' option, and instead you have 'find' print out the filenames
and then use those filenames with some other command.
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