[oclug] Changing Permissions and LS

[Jim Little]

Quoting Michael Bazdell:

> Well I tried this one, but it messes up because some of the files have
> 's in them.... Anyway to make it work with the ' things?

Well if you don't care if all the files get set to executable you could
just use the recursion built into chmod:

chmod -R +x .

from the starting directory will set all the files and directories in
the current directory and all subdirectories to be executable.

Jim