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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Simple loop Post 302332399 by pen on Thursday 9th of July 2009 04:00:24 AM
Old 07-09-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
Code:
ls *.mp3 | xargs chmod 777

Why not just
Code:
chmod 777 *.mp3

?

=> eugenes18t: in you code
Code:
for i in /tmp/list ; chmod 777 "$i"

there are two errors.
  1. the for i part would only go through the filename, not the contents of the file.
  2. Syntax error in the for loop is a missing keyword do after the semicolon.
And, oh, do you really want to give read+write access to all users? A simple
Code:
chmod u=rwx,g=r,o=r

should be enough?

Regards,

pen
 

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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) BSD
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