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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How can we change the permissions of a file in a directory Post 302396144 by Sriram.Vedula53 on Wednesday 17th of February 2010 10:30:13 PM
Old 02-17-2010
How can we change the permissions of a file in a directory
Hi All,
I am trying to wite a Shell script which changes the permission of the files in a folder but stuck at a particular point,please help.

The scenario is as follwoing:

I am having a list of 10 files and a folder which has 100 files.

I need to copare the list and the folder ,for suppose if i have only one file say some "X.ksh" common between the list and the folder,
then i need to change the permissions of all the 99 files in the folder (i.e need to ignore the common file) to 755.

Please let me know how i can solve this.

Thanks in Advance.

Regards,
Sriram.
 

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rmf

RMF(1)								     [nmh-1.5]								    RMF(1)

NAME

       rmf - remove an nmh folder

SYNOPSIS

       rmf [+folder] [-interactive | -nointeractive] [-version] [-help]

DESCRIPTION

       Rmf removes all of the messages (files) within the specified (or default) folder, and then removes the folder (directory) itself.

       If  there  are  any  files  within the folder which are not a part of nmh, they will not be removed, and an error will be produced.  If the
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       If the folder being removed is a subfolder, the parent folder will become the new current folder, and rmf will produce  a  message  telling
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       Rmf irreversibly deletes messages that don't have other links, so use it with caution.

FILES

       $HOME/.mh_profile	  The user profile

PROFILE COMPONENTS

       Path:		    To determine the user's nmh directory
       Current-Folder:	    To find the default current folder
       Inbox:		    To find the default inbox

SEE ALSO

       rmm(1)

DEFAULTS

       `+folder' defaults to the current folder, usually with confirmation
       `-interactive' if +folder' not given, `-nointeractive' otherwise

CONTEXT

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