help with chmod (files only)

[TehOne]

hello,

i want to chmod 444 all files in a directory, files in subdirs cannot be chmoded same goes for the subdirs themself.

So using:

chmod -R 444 /dir/

won't work because it will chmod the directorys and files (together with files in subdirectorys)

I figured out how to chmod files only, but it still will chmod files in subdirectorys.

find /dir/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 444

How can I do it?

[Cabhan]

I'm glad that you discovered the find utility. It's quite useful.

You can use the -maxdepth option to find to control this behaviour. By setting "-maxdepth 0", you tell find to only operate on the command line arguments. By setting "-maxdepth 1", you tell it to only work on entries directly in the commandline arguments. So try it with "-maxdepth 1" and see if that does it for you.