From: Michal Politowski <mpol@charybda.icm.edu.pl>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: breadth first globbing
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:53:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150331105306.GA18004@meep.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHYJk3RitGhSJF_k0UwZH5TGXGWiMFCxn--F2-JpxDL3M4Akkw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:04:37 +0200, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Helmut Jarausch
> <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have (unpacked) a directory tree where directories don't have the executable bit.
> > So, I want to iterate over all directories and set the executable bit.
> >
> > Standard globbing like **/*(/) doesn't work because zsh tries to cd to the directories
> > before I can chmod +x these.
> >
> > Is there a solution with zsh or is it easier to write a Python script for that.
> >
> > Many thanks for a hint,
> > Helmut
>
> I would probably just chmod -R +x followed by chmod -x **/*(.), that's
> assuming you don't have a mix of +x and -x files already though.
Even simpler should be chmod -R +X (with a capital 'X')
--
Michał Politowski
Talking has been known to lead to communication if practiced carelessly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-31 11:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-31 9:44 Helmut Jarausch
2015-03-31 10:04 ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-03-31 10:42 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-03-31 12:10 ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-03-31 10:53 ` Michal Politowski [this message]
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2015-03-31 9:32 Helmut Jarausch
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