[ale] chmod question

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Mon Jun 7 14:47:26 EDT 2004


Dow Hurst wrote:
> How come you don't have to do this:
> 
> find . \( -type f \) -exec chmod 666 {} \;

The only time I've ever known that you needed parens (escaped) within a 
find was with logical combinations as in:

find . \( -type f -o -type d \) -exec chmod 666 () \;

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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