recursive chmod

[Ben Pfaff]

Paul Melson <melson@scnc.holt.k12.mi.us> writes:

> 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?

What happens otherwise if a filename contains whitespace?
Nothing you'd like.