How-To question for the NC*SA brain trust...

[Lance A. Brown]

What about something like:

cat $list | sed -e 's/^/"/' -e 's/$/"/' | xargs chmod o-w

This results in fewer chmod commands being executed.

I often use that sed statement while doing finds and whatnot in
directory spaces in samba shares, etc.

--[Lance]

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