Re: Change permissions of files to -xw +r for all other users

[Rhys Hardwick <rhys@rhyshardwick.co.uk>]

I was just using chmod.  This helps.  I can use find to only select files, not 
directories, and change the permissions.  However, the real question is how 
to make chmod not alter the permissions for the files owner, but to remove 
write and exectute permissions for group and others.  That is the bit that 
has stumped me.  

Cheers,

Rhys


On Thursday 26 May 2005 19:36, J. wrote:
> On Thu, 26 May 2005, Rhys Hardwick wrote:
> > Hey there,
> >
> > I know this may be a case of RTM, but I am getting confused on it.
> >
> > I want to change the permissions of all the files in my home folder to
> > read only for all users but myself, but to leave directories executable
> > so that they can be opened.  I have had difficulty doing this for only
> > other users, and have ended up -xw for myself as well, even tyring many
> > variations of the -o tag.  Any help would be fantastic.
>
> What program are you talking about ? The program `find` perhaps ? Or using
> just `chmod` ?
>
> If you want to find any file in the current directory not owned by you
> then:
>
> ~: find . -type f ! -user imyselfandi -maxdepth 1
>
> The `!' exclamation mark means NOT .
>
> If you want to change the permission of all files which were found by the
> previous command you could tell find to exec chmod with the desired
> permissions, for example:
>
> ~: find . -type f ! -user imyselfandi -maxdepth 1 -exec chmod 0744 '{}' \;
>
> Or you could use a command line shell filter:
>
> ~: find . -type f ! -user imyselfandi -maxdepth 1 | while read FILE ; do
> chmod 0744 ${FILE} ; done
>
> Note; the command is actualy one line, the format breaks because of the
> text width in the e-mail message..
>
> Hope this answers your question ...
>
> > --
> >  Rhys Hardwick
>
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