Shell Programming and Scripting

Gents, sorry for the misunderstanding, I use this for archives, not for the complete partition or machine.

Code:

find /media/usb0/sounds5 -type f -exec chmod 777 {} +

Could be as well

Code:

find /media/usb0/sounds5 -type d -exec chmod 777 {} +

for directories. I did not intend to spread any bad commands. And changing the magic sledgehammer to 750.

That's even worse. All setting a folder executable does is let you cd into it, but doing that to files sets them all as world-writable, executable programs. Wrong and dangerous! Try 640. Better yet, find out what these numbers mean (man chmod) and plan ahead.

10644 or 640 is just what I did not wanted. And yes, I read the man pages for chmod before, not only the man pages, but more about this. That is why I came to the conclusion of the other values, they serve better for my purposes. As using only my machinery, how it comes that there is such a worry about user rights for files of a backup media. Okay, before starting another discussion let it stay like this. Beeing well aware of 755, 750, 644 and others.

If you're tapdancing blindfolded, don't set out minefields for yourself. You're going to get tripped by the mess you have made eventually.

Besides which, many programs care about the permissions of certain files, too. By changing everything, you have made your backups useless in a few important ways.

I am closing this thread before you can fill it with more very horrible advice.