Jim6834 Asked: 2019-10-21 02:40:50 +0800 CST2019-10-21 02:40:50 +0800 CST 2019-10-21 02:40:50 +0800 CST Find files in unknown directory 772 I want to find a file in an unknown directory and then chmod it. Could you help with that please? So far I wrote find . -type f -name ".pdf" chmod {}; directory 1 Answers Voted Best Answer jrandiny 2019-10-21T03:03:35+08:002019-10-21T03:03:35+08:00 the man page of find command says that in order to execute a command (in this case chmod) to matching file the command need to be specified using -exec parameter find . -type f -name "*.pdf" -exec chmod 744 {} \;
the man page of
findcommand says that in order to execute a command (in this casechmod) to matching file the command need to be specified using-execparameter