Also works with:
chgrp --reference file1 file2
chown --reference file1 file2
Example: touch file{1,2,3}; chmod 777 !*
Listens for events in the directory. Each created file is displayed on stdout. Then each fileline is read by the loop and a command is run. This can be used to force permissions in a directory, as an alternative for umask. More details: http://en.positon.org/post/A-solution-to-the-umask-problem%3A-inotify-to-force-permissions
Using `-exec cmd {} +` causes find to build the command using all matching filenames before execution, rather than once per file.
Makes any files in the current directory (and any sub-directories) group-readable. Using the "! -perm /g=r" limits the number of files to only those that do not already have this property Using "+" on the end of the -exec body tells find to build the entire command by appending all matching files before execution, so invokes chmod once only, not once per file.
vix /tmp/script.sh
Open a file directly with execution permission.
Put the function in your .bashrc
You can also put this in your vimrc:
command XX w | set ar | silent exe "!chmod +x %" | redraw!
and open a new file like this:
vi +XX /tmp/script.sh
"find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755" thanks masterofdisaster
per comments
`pwd` returns the current path `grep -o` prints each slash on new line perl generates the paths sequence: './.', './../.', ... `readlink` canonicalizes paths (it makes the things more transparent) `xargs -tn1` applies chmod for each of them. Each command applied is getting printed to STDERR. Show Sample Output
example of using zsh extended globbing
xargs is a more elegant approach to executing a command on find results then -exec as -exec is meant as a filtering flag.
Install with `npm install unix-permissions`. https://github.com/ehmicky/unix-permissions Unix file permissions can take many shapes: symbolic (`ug+rw`), octal (`660`) or a list of characters (`drw-rw----`). `unix-permissions` enables using any of these (instead of being limited to a single one) with any CLI command. Show Sample Output
A few characters shorter that the other command
Corrected.
This will handle the case that the filename has spaces or other characters that need to be escaped.
sometimes if directories are too deep, chmod -R fails... in those cases, a find comes in most handy :)
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