Excursions With Find, Xargs, and Perl
Posted in find, sysadmin, chmod, xargs, Perl, linux on Nov 28th, 2007
It’s a common sysadmin task to want to change permissions on all the
files and subdirectories under a top-level directory. You could just
use the ‘-R’ switch
to chmod,
but what if your files and directories need different permissions? One
scenario that comes up is with shared directories - you have a
directory tree that has to be writable by users […]
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