Hi, Thanks everyone for the responses. The issue has been solved. Thanks. Dave. -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Robert Nichols Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:21 PM To: centos at centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] replacing permissions on uploaded windows files Dave wrote: > Hello, > I've got a CentOS box and users are putting Windows long files on it, > files with " " and " - " in their filenames. I'm trying to adjust the > permissions as well as user and group membership and i'd like the > changes to be sticky. On the tld i've set permissions of 2755 and am > trying to batch convert the files and subfolders in it. I've done this: > > find tld -type f |xargs chmod 644 {} \; find tld -type d |xargs chmod > 755 {} \; > > Both of these are failing due to the spaces and dashes. I've tried > enclosing those {} in quotes, no good. Has anyone done this with shell > or perhaps perl? You've got 'find' syntax and 'xargs' syntax hopelessly mingled. Here: find tld -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644 -- find tld -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755 -- The "-print0" and "-0" use the ASCII NUL character as the argument delimiter, so any legal path can be passed without being mangled. The "--" tells chmod that none of the following arguments that might begin with '-' should be treated as options. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos