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Old 08-22-2006
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is online now Forum Staff  
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This finds all the files in a directory that are less than 24 hours old, and runs a chmod 777 filename on each one - the {} thing is the filename
Code:
find . -type f -mtime -1 -exec chmod 777 {} \;