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May 20, 2004, 4:27 AM

Andy

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May 20, 2004, 4:27 AM

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Would this work?

Just wanted to see if this would work, before I tried it (a live site);

CHMOD -R 666 *.html

Would that go through all the directories, and CHMOD the .html files to 666?

Been trying to work out the syntax for recusivly CMODing the folders too?

TIA for any help/suggestions.

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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May 20, 2004, 9:34 AM

Alex

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May 20, 2004, 9:34 AM

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Nope, that will only chmod anything in the current directory that ends in .html (and if you happen to have a directory that ends in .html, it will chmod that 666 and all files in it).

Try:

find /path/to/look/through -type f -name '*.html'

If that gives you the proper list of files, then run:

find /path/to/look/through -type f -name '*.html' -exec chmod 666 {} \;

Cheers,

Alex
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May 20, 2004, 9:35 AM

Andy

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May 20, 2004, 9:35 AM

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Thanks. I didn't think it would be as simple as my solution Pirate

I'll give your one a go, and see how that works.

Thanks again.

Andy (mod)
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