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List:       suse-linux-e
Subject:    Re: [SLE] Brainlocked over recursive script.
From:       Anders Johansson <andjoh () rydsbo ! net>
Date:       2006-05-29 12:59:48
Message-ID: 200605291459.48668.andjoh () rydsbo ! net
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On Monday 29 May 2006 14:56, Leendert Meyer wrote:
> ls -R * |
> while read f; do
>   if [ -f "$f" ]; then
>     chmod 644 "$f"
>   fi
> done

No, it's fundamentally broken. ls doesn't print the full path, so the only 
result from the above (except for the files in the top level directory) is a 
lot of "No such file or directory" errors. Per's "find" works

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