From: sjw <simon.j.wright@mac.com>
Subject: Re: Interpretation of extensions different from Unix/Linux?
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:58:16 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2009-08-20T14:58:16-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0e9b8fbf-5b20-4bff-84bf-4f3509c255e1@k19g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: f91b481a-aee1-4342-9068-4b25e0a6f0e9@a39g2000pre.googlegroups.com
On Aug 20, 4:56 pm, Adam Beneschan <a...@irvine.com> wrote:
> User-friendly, until you have a user that has a large number of files,
> and then can't do an operation on all of them because the shell that
> expands the wildcards on the command line finds that it can't fit all
> the file names in its command-line buffer. I've been there FAR too
> many times. I don't consider this to be a friendly feature.
To make all files in this and subdirectories read-only, no matter how
may there are (typically 19,000 in our usage)
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 444
What could be easier or friendlier than that?!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-20 21:58 UTC|newest]
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2009-08-01 17:53 Interpretation of extensions different from Unix/Linux? vlc
2009-08-02 17:13 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2009-08-04 11:31 ` vlc
2009-08-04 11:44 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2009-08-04 11:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-08-04 12:29 ` vlc
2009-08-04 13:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-08-14 4:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-08-14 7:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-08-04 12:25 ` vlc
2009-08-04 19:18 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-08-04 19:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-08-04 20:45 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-08-04 21:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-08-04 22:04 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-08-05 8:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-08-05 16:07 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-08-05 16:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-08-05 17:49 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-08-05 18:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-08-05 19:27 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-08-05 19:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-08-05 20:46 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-08-06 7:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-08-05 21:33 ` Robert A Duff
2009-08-05 19:45 ` vlc
2009-08-05 19:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-08-14 4:56 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-08-14 8:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-08-14 23:02 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-08-14 23:54 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-08-15 8:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-08-15 12:49 ` Pascal Obry
2009-08-15 13:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-08-15 15:11 ` Pascal Obry
2009-08-15 17:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-08-15 20:07 ` Pascal Obry
2009-08-16 7:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-08-17 22:28 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-08-18 0:32 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-08-18 20:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-08-19 4:08 ` stefan-lucks
2009-08-19 22:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-08-19 7:37 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2009-08-19 16:10 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-08-19 22:11 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-08-18 7:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-08-18 20:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-08-19 8:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-08-19 10:32 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-08-19 12:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-08-19 15:21 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-08-19 22:40 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-08-20 8:00 ` Variable- and fixed-length-character strings (Was: Interpretation of extensions different from Unix/Linux?) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2009-08-20 19:40 ` Interpretation of extensions different from Unix/Linux? Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-08-21 0:08 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-08-21 7:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-08-21 22:10 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-08-22 7:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-09-01 1:50 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-09-01 7:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-09-02 3:41 ` Stephen Leake
2009-09-02 7:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-09-02 19:49 ` tmoran
2009-09-03 7:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-09-03 17:27 ` tmoran
2009-09-03 20:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-09-03 22:22 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-09-04 7:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-09-05 1:58 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-09-05 2:08 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-09-05 8:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-08-21 10:11 ` Enumeration of network shared under Windows (was: Interpretation of extensions different from Unix/Linux?) Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-08-15 16:01 ` Interpretation of extensions different from Unix/Linux? Vadim Godunko
2009-08-16 13:13 ` Stephen Leake
2009-08-14 4:46 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-08-14 9:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-08-04 21:19 ` vlc
2009-08-14 5:19 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-08-14 6:13 ` Wilcards in Linux (was: Interpretation of extensions different from Unix/Linux?) stefan-lucks
2009-08-14 6:24 ` stefan-lucks
2009-08-14 10:05 ` Wilcards in Linux Markus Schoepflin
2009-08-14 10:22 ` Ludovic Brenta
2009-08-14 18:20 ` Tero Koskinen
2009-08-19 20:39 ` Interpretation of extensions different from Unix/Linux? Keith Thompson
2009-08-19 22:09 ` Robert A Duff
2009-08-20 7:49 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2009-08-20 15:56 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-08-20 21:58 ` sjw [this message]
2009-08-20 19:44 ` Robert A Duff
2009-08-20 21:34 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-08-20 22:03 ` (see below)
2009-08-21 0:55 ` tmoran
2009-08-20 23:55 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-08-21 17:58 ` Keith Thompson
2009-08-21 18:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-08-21 19:32 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-08-21 21:34 ` Robert A Duff
2009-08-21 22:06 ` Hyman Rosen
2009-08-24 19:51 ` Keith Thompson
2009-08-28 0:27 ` Robert A Duff
2009-08-28 13:15 ` Anders Wirzenius
2009-08-28 15:02 ` Robert A Duff
2009-08-21 8:45 ` Stephen Leake
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