recursive chmod

[Edward Glowacki]

On 27 Nov 2000, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu> writes:
> 
> > find / -type d -exec chmod 0755 {};
> > find / -type f -exec chmod 0644 {};
> 
> Or, if you have GNU tools, the following is safer:
> 
> 	find / -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod --

I'm not doubting you on this, but could you explain why it's safer?
Just curious...

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