Ther were two strains of thought :-
simply use -R as what you are requiring is a recursive operation, or use
find.
The use of -R alone I don't think would be successful as this will change
the (unknown) number of sub-directories to the same permissions won't
it? However the use of find as in
find top_dir -type f -exec chmod new_value {} \;
find top_dir -type d -exec chmod new_value {} \;
would seem to do the trick.
I was hoping some genius would be able to do it in one command as an
elegant minimalist :)
Thanks to all (many many replies) for your help.
Stuart McKenzie
Received on Tue Dec 17 1996 - 17:25:21 NZDT