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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Chmod list of files Post 302762375 by zazzybob on Monday 28th of January 2013 11:21:04 AM
Old 01-28-2013
Do all the files in /home/david/files.txt exist?

You can double check prior to the chmod with (and good form on the quotes, dexdex200):

Code:
files=/home/david/files.txt
while read file; do
   if [ -e "${file}" ]; then
      chmod 640 "${file}"
   fi
done < ${files}

 

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