On Monday 24 February 2003 17:25, Waldo Bastian wrote: > find /testkde/kde-shared -type d | xargs chmod a+rx > find /testkde/kde-shared -type f | xargs chmod a+r It's a bit nitpicking, but instead of the above two finds the following (at least under linux) would do the same: chmod -R a+rX . Note the capital X, which sets 'x' for dirs but not for files. -- Martijn