Setting (Recursively) Modes on Files

[Wm E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <5389 at cuuxb.ATT.COM> dmeeks at cuuxb.UUCP (David L. Meeks) writes:

| sure all arguments to 'find' are white-space separated.  I believe
| one could also use:
| 	
| 	find . -type f ! -name "s.*" ! -name "p.*" -print |xargs chmod g+w
| 
| which would also eliminate the 'p.' files from the list.

  Or ! -name '[sp].*' since these are glob format wildcards on names
(shell rules, not regular expressiln rules).
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