[ale] chmod question

[Dow Hurst]

How come you don't have to do this:

find . \( -type f \) -exec chmod 666 {} \;

I thought from my IRIX background that the search was done in a subshell so 
had this syntax.  Is this an IRIX specific version oddity of the find command 
and the Linux/GNU version is written differently?
Dow


Jason Etheridge wrote:
>> Is there a way to use chmod recursively where it will only change the 
>> permissions on the files and not the directories?  chmod -R changes 
>> everything thus making the directories non-traversable.
> 
> 
> find . -type f -exec chmod 666 {} \;
> 
> That should work.  Type f refers to regular files.
> 
> -- Jason
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