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I'm trying to change the rights of a number of directories. But some of the directories have spaces in the names. It's only about the directories, not about the files ...
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    [SOLVED] Use find with directories with spaces for stdout

    I'm trying to change the rights of a number of directories. But some of the directories have spaces in the names. It's only about the directories, not about the files in them.

    So far I came up with the next line:

    chmod g+rw `find * -type d`

    But I notice it cannot handle the dirs with spaces in the names.

    How do I handle these dirs aswell?
    Last edited by rexdejong; 08-08-2008 at 10:19 AM. Reason: found solution: find . -type d -exec chmod g+rw {} \;

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