[oclug] Changing Permissions and LS

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 02:47:12AM -0400, Michael Bazdell wrote:
> I have a whole bunch of mp3 files and they're all +x for some reason. So
> I want to change them all into -x but this will take a really long time
> to do, and if I do it too broad, I'll -x directories... I tried doing
> something like,
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> chmod -x "$1"
> 
> 
> and then I'd do,
> 
> find ./ -iname *.mp3|script
> 
> 
> But I'd always get "chmod: failed to get attributes of `': No such file
> or directory"... I can't figure out the trick.... any suggestions?

find -type f |xargs chmod a-x

> Also I was wondering if it's possible to show directories first when
> doing "ls". I tried "ls -X" but that doesn't really give the directories
> first...

I don't think GNU ls has this option.  I'm not sure why you'd want it
really.

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