[Slackbuilds-users] Call for Bug Fixes, Patches, etc

Kyle Guinn elyk03 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 24 06:37:05 UTC 2016


On 2/23/16, Andrzej Telszewski <atelszewski at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/02/16 13:48, Martijn Dekker wrote:
>> 2. The following horrible, broken and obsolete eyesore:
>>
>> find -L . \
>>   \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 750 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 \
>>    -o -perm 511 \) -exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
>>   \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
>>    -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
>>
>> can be replaced by:
>>
>>     chmod -R a-st,u+rwX,go-w+rX .
>
> I advocate this solution.
> Can we switch for it?
> Or at least would the SlackBuild be accepted if I used this construct?

Even shorter and simpler to understand:
chmod -R u+w,go-w,a+rX-st .

-Kyle


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