recursive chmod

[Paul Melson]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 05:01:49PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Or, if you have GNU tools, the following is safer:
> 
> 	find / -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod --


	I didn't think the '-print' and '-0' switches 
	were really necessary in this particular case, 
	though, since find's only output will be the 
	path and filename, so there's only one argument
	that can be passed to xargs anyway.  Any reason
	to use them other than to be proper?


PaulM

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