UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

That is interesting.

I'm using FreeBSD (Snow Leopard).

Just fired up Linux, and on that I get the result you did.

Interesting indeed. I am wondering is this gives any different results:

Code:

chmod -R a=,a+rX,u+w /path/to/dir

It should behave the same.

The result is the same.

Best leave it there. Put it down to a BSD "feature" for now

Code:

#!/bin/bash
path="/path"
gnu_find $path -printf "chmod %m %p\n" > backup.chown
gnu_find $path -type d -exec chmod 755 "{}" \;
gnu_find $path -type f -exec chmod 644 "{}" \;

Scottn/Scrutinizer/ichigo -
Thanks a lot for all your helps !!

Turns out ichigo's command works the best for me...I am a little confused about the command "chmod -R a=rX, u+w ..." not sure why that would create a different permissions rw_ for file and rwx for dirs on the owner's portion bits though...

thegunman

That is because of the capital letter X. See man chmod.

(Quote trimmed to highlight the relevant bits)

It isn't. The final mode for 'z' does not conform to the posix/opengroup spec; it should be -rwxr-xr-x (as per scottn's "c" file).

From chmod:

The key word being "unmodified". Perhaps your chmod's implementation is using the file mode as modified by the first action (a=r) when evaluating "a+X".

Regards,
alister