Re: chmod hidden files

On Mon, 15 May 2006 20:02:56 -0400, Mercury wrote:

Well, I'm trying to use * as the wildcard, but this doesn't get the hidden
files.

chmod -R XXX *

where XXX are the permissions.

That doesn't do what I want (doesn't chmod the hidden files) - what will?

Hmmm, here is what I have
/home/bittwister/tmp/junk
/home/bittwister/tmp/junk/l1
/home/bittwister/tmp/junk/l1/l2

$ ls -al l1/l2/.a*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 bittwister bittwister 0 May 15 12:24 l1/l2/.aaa
-rw-r--r-- 1 bittwister bittwister 0 May 15 13:00 l1/l2/.aab

$ chmod -R 775 *

ls -al l1/l2/.a*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 bittwister bittwister 0 May 15 12:24 l1/l2/.aaa
-rwxrwxr-x 1 bittwister bittwister 0 May 15 13:00 l1/l2/.aab

$ chmod -R 777 *
ls -al l1/l2/.a*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bittwister bittwister 0 May 15 12:24 l1/l2/.aaa
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bittwister bittwister 0 May 15 13:00 l1/l2/.aab

What can also be happing is you are removing/changing privs on directories
which prevents changes below that directory.

For current directory you can do
chmod xxx * .*

and/or
chmod xxx * .* */* */.* */*/* */*/.*

Anytime you what to see what happens with command line expansion, do a
ls -al (your string here) Example:

ls -al * .* */* */.* */*/* */*/.*

If you do not want to change directory perms you will need to use
find. If filenames contain any white space characters you may want to
use something like

find . -type f -name "*" -print0 | xargs -r0 chmod 755

For extra points, read
man find
man xargs
.

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