Re: chmod -R +x for directories only

Keith Matthews wrote: 
billy wrote:


billy wrote:

Is it possible to change the permissions of a directory tree
(recursively) for execute on directories only?

Billy 

Thanks for all the answers.

Keith I tried yours and it works great, but I think the directory may be
messed up with  Windows long file names ( it's a samba share) and I got
some errors e.g. :

chmod: cannot access `./companya/back': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `up': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `of': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `old': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `system/A.R.': No such file or directory





Indeed, find doesn't seem to cope with those very well.

Its not the find thats the problem, its the whitespace in the results returned which is then being interpreted as field separators by the shell.

a command line like

# find . -type d -exec chmod 711 {} \;

will work fine as the results of the find are passed directly to chmod without going through the shell.

The downside of the above command is that its inefficient as it invokes chmod separately for each result of the find, whereas the "chmod `find`" will only invoke both the chmod and the find once.

B.
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