Comments on: chmod recursively on directories or files using find http://www.zarzax.com/chmod-recursively-on-directories-using-find/ the rantings of mark young :: random thoughts and interesting snippets Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:08:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Trent Douthat http://www.zarzax.com/chmod-recursively-on-directories-using-find/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Trent Douthat Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:20:19 +0000 http://www.zarzax.com/?p=325#comment-43 Thanks so much for this information. I just spent an hour trying to get chmod to work recursively inside of a for loop, but it kept barfing on filenames that contained spaces. for foo in $(find /home2 -name "*"); do chmod 744 "$foo"; done Your find/exec command with the curly braces fixed me right up. Thanks so much for this information.

I just spent an hour trying to get chmod to work recursively inside of a for loop, but it kept barfing on filenames that contained spaces.
for foo in $(find /home2 -name “*”); do chmod 744 “$foo”; done

Your find/exec command with the curly braces fixed me right up.

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