Re: find and chmod

From: Faeandar (mr_castalot_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:43:22 GMT

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 19:14:28 GMT, Faeandar <mr_castalot@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>I'm running the following on an nfs file system housed on a NetApp:
>
>sudo find . -type d -name .snapshot -prune -exec chmod g+s \{}
>
>I want to set the sgid bit for all directories from here down. It's
>deep so I don't want to do it by manually but this doesn't seem to
>work, whereas setting it individually does.
>
>Thanks.
>
>~F

Nevermind, found my problem. The command should actually look like:

sudo find . -type d -name .snapshot -prune -o -type d -exec chmod g+s
{} \;

This looks to be working a little better. The "\{}" was actually a
typo. I really was doing "{} \;".

I think the problem was the -o option.

~F

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