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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Unprintable filenames and automating a chmod Post 302164358 by jim mcnamara on Monday 4th of February 2008 03:32:14 PM
Old 02-04-2008
You can deal with weird characters by assigning the filename to a variable, when you reference the variable, surround it in quotes. This works almost all of the time.
Code:
find ./someplace -name 'somefiles*' |\
while read filename
do
    chmod +x "$file"
done

This may also work on your system:
Code:
find ./someplace -name 'somefiles*' -exec chmod +x "{}"

 

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lchmod

LCHMOD(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						 LCHMOD(3)

NAME

     lchmod -- change mode of file

SYNOPSIS

     #include <sys/stat.h>
     #include <unistd.h>

     int
     lchmod(const char *path, mode_t flags);

DESCRIPTION

     The function lchmod() sets the file permission bits of the file specified by the pathname path to mode.  See chmod(2) for the values of the
     flags.

     The lchmod() call is like chmod() except when the named file is a symbolic link, in which case lchmod() will change the flags of the link
     itself, rather than the file it points to.

NOTE

     Instead of being a system call, lchmod() is emulated using setattrlist(2).  Not all file systems support setattrlist(2).

RETURN VALUES

     Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned.  Otherwise, -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

     The lchmod() call may return the same errors as chmod(2) and setattrlist(2).

SEE ALSO

     chmod(2), setattrlist(2)

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