[K-ONE]

Hi all,

I need to write a shell script to recursively search a directory tree containing subdir and files. then the program will check the file's permissions and change them if necessary.


I have a very little background and experience with shell scripting and really don't know to do it.

Please let me know if you can help. I do really need your help,

not using find command

Please advise.

Thanks

[wataru]

Why can't you use the find command?

Incidentally, the best source of information I've found about bash scripting is Mendel Cooper's Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide. It's absolutely invaluable.

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by wataru:
Why can't you use the find command?

Incidentally, the best source of information I've found about bash scripting is Mendel Cooper's Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide. It's absolutely invaluable.

Yes, that tutorial is awesome, but the `find` command's permissions stuff is confusing as hell. I recall trying to figure it out how to use find's "+perm" and "-perm" once, but it ended up getting lost.

[wataru]

Can't you just use -exec chmod blah?

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by wataru:
Can't you just use -exec chmod blah?

He wants to find files/directories with certain permissions. I suppose you could look at the output of `ls -l` and parse that, but that sounds pretty ugly. I never could figure out the permissions primary for find ("+perm" and "-perm"). Going between BSD find and GNU find also has some inconsistencies, especially with the permissions primary.