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1. Colin Dean Ubuntu users

   I have a directory tree containing files and I need to recursively chmod only a certain filetype to 644. Help? !ubuntu

   Friday, 14-May-10 00:20:10 UTC from Adium at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
   • Hilton Garcia Fernandes

     @colindean please explain filetype: defined by contents or by name termination ?

     Friday, 14-May-10 00:30:27 UTC
   • Colin Dean Hilton Garcia Fernandes

     @hgfernan filename, .mp3. I know I need to use something like find . | grep mp3 | xargs chmod 644

     Friday, 14-May-10 00:32:06 UTC
   • Hilton Garcia Fernandes

     @colindean "man find" is your friend: find . -name \*mp3 -exec chmod +644 '{} ' \;

     Friday, 14-May-10 00:45:54 UTC
   • Hilton Garcia Fernandes

     @colindean Mommy, I found it! — 15 Practical Linux Find Command Examples http://bit.ly/a2f601 all about #find

     Friday, 14-May-10 00:47:14 UTC
   • Jean Levasseur

     @colindean: man find

     Friday, 14-May-10 00:48:08 UTC
   • Colin Dean Hilton Garcia Fernandes

     @hgfernan thanks. no man pages on the system I was on, didn't think to use the 'net, haha

     Friday, 14-May-10 01:42:33 UTC
   • Colin Dean Hilton Garcia Fernandes

     @hgfernan Hmm. It's not working. I'm in Busybox, btw. When I run that, Busybox yells at me.

     Friday, 14-May-10 01:45:13 UTC
   • Hilton Garcia Fernandes

     @colindean sorry, #busybox is much more limited. gonna try that under #openwrt tomorrow. your page in #identica is cool.

     Friday, 14-May-10 02:53:50 UTC
   • Colin Dean Hilton Garcia Fernandes

     @hgfernan why thank you. and thank you for helping me out. linux and osx see the files just fine, but windows borks on 777 apparently

     Friday, 14-May-10 02:56:19 UTC
   • Jochen

     @colindean try: find ./ -name *.xxx -exec chmod -R 644 {} \;

     Friday, 14-May-10 05:34:42 UTC