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From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <_garbage_collector_ AT telia DOT com>
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Subject: RE: Execute bit getting set on created files when it shouldn't
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:45:48 +0100
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Don Peterson wrote:

> I use the following shell function as a quick hack to recursively fix
> things: 
> 
> unx ()
> {
>     find . -type d | xargs chmod a+x;
>     find . -type f ! -name "*.exe" | xargs chmod a-x }
> 
> Its problem is that it doesn't work on file names with space
> characters (one could hack on find to add a -Q option to quote any
> filenames with spaces etc. so that hopefully xargs would do the right
> thing).  An undesirable side effect is that e.g. files that are
> scripts where you do want them to be executable are changed to
> nonexecutable. 

FYI and for the archives;
 tips when it comes to space contaminated filenames:

 find -print0 | xargs -null

or maybe better and faster;

 find . -exec chmod a-x \"{}\" \;

Do read man/info pages for more information WRT the above options.

/H
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