[ale] chmod -R ?

[rs at ale.spam.futz.org]

>rs at ale.spam.futz.org wrote:
>> xargs is your friend:
>> 
>> find . -name '*.txt' -print0 | xargs -0  chmod a-x
>> 
>> This will save you from exec'ing chmod for every single txt file..
>
>I'm pretty sure 'chmod -R' used properly would be faster, and is smart 
>enough to not run against single files.

Sure.. if the directory structure *only* contains .txt files. But chmod -R
would also take away directory x permissions, which might not be desirable....

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