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Setting file permissions in bash script

This script is not working the way I thought it would .I though it would find all the scripts that have every one rwx permissions changed to the permissions of xx5 #!/bin/bash # the / makes find ...
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chmod allowing write when I am not setting it

I've got a perl script which systematically changes permissions. The first thing the script does is remove all permissions. It does this by calling chmod(from perl). I did this as I found the set guid ...
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A bunch of files have 777 permissions

I have been learning Python and Bash scripting, and I up to now I have given my scripts 777 permissions. Having learned more about how to set permissions, and knowing this is a bad idea, I ran the ...
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How to skip “permission denied” errors when running find in Linux? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I remove “permission denied” printout statements from the find program? When I run this command in Linux (SuSE): find / -name ant I get many error ...
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How to change permissions of multiple files found with find command?

I have a directory with numerous files. Part of the files have the 755 permissions and the other part have 644 permissions. I'd like to convert the files with 755 permissions to 644. I have tried the ...
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Search for file permisions other than 755

In AIX really, how can I search in several directories and those below it, for files that are not of the specific permissions of 755. So I want to search /path/to/, /path/to/mydir, ...
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find files which have a higher permission than xxx

I want to find all files which have a higher permission than e.g. 640. Perhaps this would work with a find and exec command. But my knowledge isn't sufficient for such a task.
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recursively change file permission but not directories?

I was doing a mass recursive change of permissions of some files that I had migrated to a unix system. I changed them to ug+rw, but then I found that I could not traverse subdirectories. I looked at ...