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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Chmod list of files Post 302762333 by davidm123SED on Monday 28th of January 2013 10:39:37 AM
Old 01-28-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by zazzybob
Try

Code:
while read item; do
   chmod 640 ${item}
done < ${files}

Hang on - obviously depends on input data too - please post a sample - I was assuming one file per line.
Yes, the file is called /home/david/files.txt and there is one filename per line..

/home/david/fileone
/home/david/directory_example/filetwo

.. etc.

I want to read in the list, and chmod every single one of them to 640.

Thanks.
 

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