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Subject: Re: breadth first globbing
From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de
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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.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson