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Re: New feature for chmod (and I'm surprised nobody got around to it...)


From: Brendan Byrd
Subject: Re: New feature for chmod (and I'm surprised nobody got around to it...)
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 15:19:04 -0400
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David J. MacKenzie wrote:
>

Is the goal to make only the directories executable?  There's
already a simple way to do that:

chmod a-x *; chmod a+X *

Hmmm...never spotted that before. (Probably because I usually use absolute permissions all the time.) Maybe equiv R and W options would be useful. Of course, you'd run into problems with -R...

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Brendan Byrd (address@hidden)
System Administrator @ Mission Data
http://www.missiondata.com/




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