Running chmod on files with a particular extension

[shabakeh]

hi everyone

I have a directory with a lot of subdirectories and files. How can I write a bash script that add x permissions to .sh files only. or how can I change owner of files that has .sh extension? thanks in advance

[scottro]

I've moved the thread to programming, which seems more suited. I've also given it a more specific title. (Busy people tend to just skip threads with vague titles)

I suspect you want to use find with either -exec or xargs to do this. I would try starting by googling for

find tutorial

http://www.softpanorama.org/Tools/Fi...tutorial.shtml

Ah, I think that is the one that I had in mind.

[ghostdog74]

find /path -type f -name "*.sh" -exec chmod u+x "{}" +;

or

find /path -type d | while read DIR
do
 chmod .... *.sh
done

[BlueC]

ghostdog, question:

what's the difference between using that "+" at the end and using a "\" ?

you wrote:

find /path -type f -name "*.sh" -exec chmod u+x "{}" +;

but I would always do:

find /path -type f -name "*.sh" -exec chmod u+x "{}" \;

just wondering like...?

Chris

[kramulous]

Wouldn't mind an answer to the difference myself, I'd use

find . -type f -name "*.sh" -exec chmod u+x {} \;

[ibbo]

cd Folder

# Make exe
chmod -R 0755 *.sh

# change user
chown -R <user>:<group> *.sh

No need for find as we know where they are located. We simply need -R to recursively poll the sub directories for *.sh files and then act upon them.

Ibbo

[ghostdog74]

Originally Posted by BlueC

ghostdog, question:

what's the difference between using that "+" at the end and using a "\" ?

you wrote:

find /path -type f -name "*.sh" -exec chmod u+x "{}" +;

but I would always do:

find /path -type f -name "*.sh" -exec chmod u+x "{}" \;

just wondering like...?

Chris

+; at the end is supported by recent version of find. it has the same effects as using find with xargs. check the man page for more details