On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 at 9:53am (-0500), rpjday wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Matthew Melvin wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 at 1:54pm (-0000), Tristan Hill wrote:
> >
> > > I've got the following bash function to print the name of all directories
> > > relative to the current path and change each directories permission. The
> > > script fail to pickup directories with a space in the name though.
> > > Corrections to the script would be much appreciated.
> > >
> > >
> > > #!/bin/bash
> > >
> > > for each in `find . -name "*"`
> > >
> > > do
> > >
> > > if [ -d "$each" ]; then
> > >
> > > echo "$each"
> > > chmod 2770 "$each";
> > >
> > > fi
> > >
> > > done
> > >
> >
> > For this we can simplify it alot and get find to do all the work for us...
> >
> > find . -type d -exec chmod 2770 {} \;
> >
> > ... and because the file name is never passed throug shell we don't have to
> > worry about any spaces.
>
> you might also consider using "xargs" to avoid having to run a separate
> chmod command for every single directory you locate.
>
'cept xargs isn't going to preserve your spaces. Well it might i guess if
we get find to help out a bit...
find . -type d -printf '"%p"\n' | xargs chmod 2770
... hmm... actually as long as you're dealing with less than a couple
thousdand directories and more than a handful to make it worth while that's
prolly the 'better' sollution. Just less clear... :)
M.
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