Linux Shell Script?

Question

Does anyone know how to write a shell script that would disable writing and executing rights for my group on all *.txt files?

Answer 1

for ea in `find / -name *.txt`; do chmod 744 $ea;done

this will do ALL files on the system

Heya this command will find ALL files that end in .txt and chmod them to 744.. which is owner all privileges.. group read only... world read only..

If you want to specific location do

for ea in `find /your/location -name *.txt`; do chmod 744 $ea;done



This should do the trick! please pay attention to the ` they are not ' .. just copy and paste it and modify the location..



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Answer 2

My *nix is a bit rusty, but it should be a SINGLE chmod command, no script needed.

Answer 3

all you'd have to do is something along the lines of:

chmod 444 *.txt

this will change "yours", "your group's" and, "others' " permissions to read only.