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xargs is a more elegant approach to executing a command on find results then -exec as -exec is meant as a filtering flag.
Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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for n in `seq 1 1 1000`; do touch $n; done
Bad:time find ./ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
real 0m2.726s user 0m1.050s sys 0m1.673s Better:time find ./ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644
real 0m0.061s user 0m0.014s sys 0m0.040sfind ./ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} +
for n in `seq 1 1 1000`; do touch $n; done
time find ./ -type f | awk '{printf("chmod 644 %s\n", $1)}' | sh
0.00user 0.00system 0:00.01elapsed 70%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+318minor)pagefaults 0swapschmod -R a-x,a+X ./
This removes the x bit from all files and puts it back on folders ;)chmod 644 **/*(.)
To change directory perms:chmod 755 **/*(/)