Setting (Recursively) Modes on Files

[Kartik Subbarao]

In article <FPB.90Dec20120534 at ittc.ittc.wec.com> fpb at ittc.wec.com (Frank P. Bresz) writes:
>
>Hi,
>	I often have the case where I want to open up an area of a
>directory to group access.  However I am using SCCS and have many files
>that should remain read only.  A mindless
>
>	chmod -R g+w .
>
>	Trashes the sanctity of SCCS by making some things group writable
>while they aren't user writable.
>
>	How can I cleanly execute this command?
>
>	awk/sed/sh/find (or whatever) accepted

Find seems up to this task.

To add group read & write permissions to any file here or lower that's 
writable to the user:

find . -perm -0600 -exec chmod g+rw "{}" \;



			-Kartik



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