Setting (Recursively) Modes on Files

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3 total messages Started by Frank P. Bresz Thu, 20 Dec 1990 17:05

#1965

Author: Frank P. Bresz
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 1990 17:05

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Hi,
	I often have the case where I want to open up an area of a
directory to group access.  However I am using SCCS and have many files
that should remain read only.  A mindless

	chmod -R g+w .

	Trashes the sanctity of SCCS by making some things group writable
while they aren't user writable.

	How can I cleanly execute this command?

	awk/sed/sh/find (or whatever) accepted

	Please no PERL or CSH.

	SunOS4.1 (but please don't make it specific to that platform)
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Re: Setting (Recursively) Modes on Files

#1983

Author: Kartik Subbarao
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 1990 20:25

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In article <FPB.90Dec20120534@ittc.ittc.wec.com> fpb@ittc.wec.com (Frank P. Bresz) writes:
>
>Hi,
>	I often have the case where I want to open up an area of a
>directory to group access.  However I am using SCCS and have many files
>that should remain read only.  A mindless
>
>	chmod -R g+w .
>
>	Trashes the sanctity of SCCS by making some things group writable
>while they aren't user writable.
>
>	How can I cleanly execute this command?
>
>	awk/sed/sh/find (or whatever) accepted

Find seems up to this task.

To add group read & write permissions to any file here or lower that's 
writable to the user:

find . -perm -0600 -exec chmod g+rw "{}" \;



			-Kartik



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Re: Setting (Recursively) Modes on Files

#2000

Author: Wm E. Davidsen Jr
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 1990 03:04

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In article <5389@cuuxb.ATT.COM> dmeeks@cuuxb.UUCP (David L. Meeks) writes:

| sure all arguments to 'find' are white-space separated.  I believe
| one could also use:
| 	
| 	find . -type f ! -name "s.*" ! -name "p.*" -print |xargs chmod g+w
| 
| which would also eliminate the 'p.' files from the list.

  Or ! -name '[sp].*' since these are glob format wildcards on names
(shell rules, not regular expressiln rules).
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