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From: Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: x bit for dirs: misfeature?
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:20:06AM +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> find . -type d -exec chmod a+rx "{}" \;
> find . -type f -exec chmod a+r "{}" \;

That is a bit inefficient though.  It results in one fork/exec pair for
each file and each directory.

A better solution is to use find | xargs

find /path/to/dir -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod a+rx
find /path/to/dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod a+r

That way, xargs bunches up the arguments into as many arguments as chmod
can handle, and calls it fewer times.

The -print0 and -0 are GNU extensions to handle spaces in names.

mrc
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