Permissions when copying to USB key

[Florence Berbain]

Daniel Silverstone wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 19:01 +0100, Florence Berbain wrote:
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>>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?
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>It wouldn't help because vfat would make it all executable again next
>time you tried to do anything with the key.
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Yes, that's right. Hadn't thought if that...

>But for future reference... to affect all files in a tree...
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>find /path/to/tree -type f -print0 | xargs -0 command -arg -arg
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>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
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Thanks, very glad to learn.
Florence