Comments on: Bash script to fix file permissions recursively

By: mmatczuk

mmatczuk — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:13:28 +0000

Your script is buggy – it does not handle file names with spaces.

try something like this
find ~/ -type f -exec chmod 600 ‘{}’ \;

or you can always use find … -print0 | xargs -0

gothi » Blog Archive » SwirlyMMS picture import fix — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:23:26 +0000

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