Bash Script

[Cameron Simpson]

On 10Jul2007 18:35, John Pierce <john.j35 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a bash script that will recurse through a series
> of directories and strip the executable bit from the files in those
> directories and not the directories.

Sounds like homework to me.

1: You don't need bash. Any Bourne shell will be fine.

2: A trivial use of find(1) and chmod(1) will do this.
   Go read "man find". It's a one line script.

Cheers,
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