Unix Tip: CHMOD FILES NOT DIRS

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Unix Tip 2887 - January 1, 2009

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CHMOD FILES NOT DIRS

Sometimes bringing files from another filesystem (ie. fat32) while have the execute bit "x" set on all files and directories. To remove execute permission on normal files, while leaving the 'x' permission on sub-directories the following can be used:

find ./ -type f | xargs chmod a-x

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