[ale] Baffled on chmod usage

[Jeff Hubbs]

Matthew -

I tried that in the early going.  It pukes.

- Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brown, Matthew [mailto:MBrown at msdemo.ms.gmsmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 4:46 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: RE: [ale] Baffled on chmod usage
> 
> 
> Actually, i think i've had this one.  I believe you want:
> 
> chmod -Rv 555 ./*.exe
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fulton Green [mailto:me at FultonGreen.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 04:29 PM
> To: Jeff Hubbs
> Cc: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Baffled on chmod usage
> 
> 
> You may need to prepend * with a backslash, as in \*.exe .
> 
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 04:25:56PM -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > I want to chmod all the .exe files within and below the directory
> "public,"
> > so I go:
> > 
> > 	# cd /<path>/public
> > 	# chmod -Rv 555 *.exe
> > 
> > but I get
> > 
> > 	chmod: *.exe: No such file or directory
> > 
> > FWIW, there are no .exe files in public, but there are many of them
> > scattered in directories underneath public.  What I especially don't
> > understand is that if I go 
> > 
> > 	# chmod -Rv 555 *
> > 
> > then everything and its brother in public and below gets 
> chmodded.  I can
> > use some other extension besides .exe that I know is 
> present but I still
> get
> > No such file or directory.
> > 
> > Am I misusing wildcards in bash or something?
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