Recursively removing the execute permission

[Nils Kassube]

Nigel Ridley wrote:
> I need to recursively remove the execute permission on a bunch of
> [html] files that came from a Windows box. The problem I have is
> that there are child directories within the main directory.
> 
> How can I get this done?
> I did some Googling and came up with:
> % chmod -x ...
> but I don't understand it enough to use it :-(

It doesn't work with chmod alone, you need find to select the files to 
modify. If you want to use it for html files only, this should work:

find -name \*.html -exec chmod -x {} \;

And if you want to use it for all ordinary files, try this:

find -type f -exec chmod -x {} \;


Nils