From: Charles Hannum (mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu)
Date: 02/08/93 

From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Subject: Re: chmod
Date: 8 Feb 1993 07:45:45 GMT

In article <gate.FFomyB1w165w@fangorn.hacktic.nl>
bram@fangorn.hacktic.nl (Bram Smits) writes:
>
> I just made a very stupid error : I did chmod -R 775 /usr , makeing
> every file in the /usr dir and subdirs executable. [...], what would
> be the easiest way to correct this screwup ??

find /usr -type f -print | xargs chmod a-x

Of course, any executables you had before will then not be executable. 

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