Ways to make only dirs executable WITOUT using find

[charlweed]

Often, I find myself needing to make a tree of directories executable for someone, ie:

find . -type d -exec chmod ug+x {} \;

But I don't like the overhead of find, and running a "new"chmod for every dir.

You folks have preferred alternatives?

[atreyu]

have u tried chmod -R?

[charlweed]

chmod -R will make ALL files executable, I only want the x bit set in directories.
chmod -RX . is a better, but only if none of the regular files have any of thier x bits set. The best I have found is:

find . -type d -exec chmod ug+x {} +

This variant of the -exec action runs the specified command on the selected files, but the command line is built by appending each selected file name at the end; the total number of invocations of the command will be much less than the number of matched files.

[atreyu]

what about just calling one chmod on the output of the find command? e.g.:

chmod +x `find . -type d whatever`

does that do what u want? I've never used the '+' with find before...