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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting help with chmod (files only) Post 302253646 by TehOne on Saturday 1st of November 2008 03:31:55 PM
Old 11-01-2008
Data help with chmod (files only)
hello,

i want to chmod 444 all files in a directory, files in subdirs cannot be chmoded same goes for the subdirs themself.

So using:

Code:
chmod -R 444 /dir/

won't work because it will chmod the directorys and files (together with files in subdirectorys)

I figured out how to chmod files only, but it still will chmod files in subdirectorys.

Code:
find /dir/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 444

How can I do it?
 

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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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