Well, I wouldn't use "ls -l | grep" to search for files with a given
mode; ls -l output is tricky to parse programmatically.

I would use find... Something like

find * -type d -prune -mode 0755 -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0775



On 9/3/09, jeff donovan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> greetings
>
> I'm a little rusty,
> I want to search a directory for a changed permission field and reset
> it.
>
> example
>
> ls -la | grep drwxr-xr-x +
>
> (chop the other info) "leave_the_fileDir"
> chmod 775 $the_fileDir
>
>
> it's the chop the other info I forget how to do. anyone have any
> snipit's ?
> -j
>

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