[SOLVED] Can someone help me cook up a script?

[zenkaon]

Hello,

I am in need of a script that will change the permissions of lots of directories and files, but my scripting is rusty.

I am looking to set the chmod of all directories to 2775 and all files within those directories to 0644.

I have been recommended using:

find ./ -type d -exec chmod 2775 '{}' \;
find ./ -type f -exec chmod 0664 '{}' \;


Which would work fine if I didn't have spaces in my directory and file names. My files are organised like:

~/Some Band/There first Album/01 - Some Song.ogg


The find lines above can't find the directory "Some" or the directory "Band" and hence doesn't do what I want.

Can anyone cook up a shell script which would do what I'm after?

Cheers

[mssever]

find ./ -type d -exec chmod 2775 '{}' \;
find ./ -type f -exec chmod 0664 '{}' \;
Which would work fine if I didn't have spaces in my directory and file names.
Are you sure you used exactly those commands? They work for me as written with files and directories containing spaces.

[mkrahmeh]

you need to instruct find command to handle newlines, spaces,..etc in file names properly, here is my suggestion
find ./ -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 2775
as for files, just modify the command accordingly

though its not your case, but its noteworthy that the working directory "./" will be the first to be affected by chmod, so in case the new mode prevents execution, the chmod wont be able to continue working upon inner directories
good luck..

[zenkaon]

Cheers mkrahmeh

That's worked a treat. My permissions are all sorted now.

I'm doing this on a Western Digital MyBookWorld, which is running Linux 2.6.17.14 and didn't like my original find lines.

[mkrahmeh]

glad i helped..anyway, i still dont know how to remove x mode from all directories, since the outer directory will be the first to be affected
i mean
find ./ -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod a-x
will only remove the x mode for ./ and thus chmod for inner directories will be denied !!

[mssever]

glad i helped..anyway, i still dont know how to remove x mode from all directories, since the outer directory will be the first to be affected
i mean
find ./ -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod a-xwill only remove the x mode for ./ and thus chmod for inner directories will be denied !!
You could do it in two steps, the first being find * .* -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod a-xBut, the OP didn't ask to clear the x bit, and good reasons to do so must be very obscure indeed.