Listmates, I was trying to use chmod, but it says: 12:44 nirvana/srv/www/download> find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sudo chmod 0644 sudo: unable to execute /bin/chmod: Argument list too long How long is too long? How many files will chmod do, or does it depend on the length of file names? There are only 5590 files beneath this directory: 12:47 nirvana/srv/www/download> find . -type f | wc -l 5590 To accomplish what I wanted to do I had to change the find call to: sudo find . -type f -exec sudo chmod 0644 '{}' \; This is much...much... slower. How big is the chmod limitation and is there a better way to get around this limitation? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. | openSoftware und SystemEntwicklung Rankin Law Firm, PLLC | Countdown for openSuSE 11.1 www.rankinlawfirm.com | http://counter.opensuse.org/11.1/small -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org