Re: chmod feature request: setting different modes for files and directories

[Andreas Schwab]

Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> writes:

> Tobia Conforto wrote:
>> The same is true when someone
>> extracts some files from an archive or copies them over a removable
>> media, where permissions need to be reset to something sane, like 755/644:
>> 
>
> current:  chmod -R 755 another/path; find another/path -type f -exec chmod 
> 644 {} +

current: find another/path -type f -exec chmod 644 {} + -o type d -exec chmod 
755 {} +

> proposed: chmod -R d:755,f:644 another/path
>
> This case is more valid as it would be faster since you'd be traversing
> the branch only once.

Also only one traverse with find (which is more flexible here as well).

Andreas.

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