Too many words from `` (csh)
Hal Peterson
hrp at cray.com
Wed Mar 6 02:00:39 AEST 1991
In article <21658 at teda.UUCP> mikel at teda.UUCP (Mikel Lechner) writes:
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ';'
However, this will run a bit slower, since it will create a new chmod
process for each file encountered. But, it will work.
If you have xargs, this is better:
find . -type f -print | xargs chmod 644
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