Re: [SLE] Brainlocked over recursive script.

On Saturday 27 May 2006 12:09, Rikard Johnels wrote:

  ls -R *  | while read f    do      if [ -f $f ]; then        chmod 644 $f       fi   done

Unfortunately the filenames contain spaces... And thus i get all kinds of errors from the chmod stage

2004 So Called Chaos -bash: [: too many arguments

And the stupid part is i cant for my life understand how to get the script to enclose the $f with " "

I did not test it, but I would code it as this: ls -R * | while read f; do if [ -f "$f" ]; then chmod 644 "$f" fi done Cheers, Leen