Permissions when copying to USB key

[Daniel Silverstone]

On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 19:01 +0100, Florence Berbain wrote:
>I can't figure out from the chmod man page how to do a chmod -x 
>recursively on all files and not on directories. Anybody knows how to do 
>that?


It wouldn't help because vfat would make it all executable again next
time you tried to do anything with the key.

But for future reference... to affect all files in a tree...

find /path/to/tree -type f -print0 | xargs -0 command -arg -arg

will call 'command -arg -arg <file>...' for all the files in the tree.
You can pass '-n1' to xargs to tell it to do one file at a time

D.

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