[Gllug] Recursively setting file permissions

[Tethys]

I wrote:

>	find /top/level/directory -type d -exec chmod 770 {} \;
>	find /top/level/directory -type f -exec chmod 660 {} \;

But I neglected to mention that if you have large numbers of files
below that directory, you'll get better performance by using xargs:

	find /top/level/directory -type d -print | xargs chmod 770
	find /top/level/directory -type f -print | xargs chmod 660

Tet
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