Re: Applying permissions to all files in all subfolders
Re: Applying permissions to all files in all subfolders
- Subject: Re: Applying permissions to all files in all subfolders
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:11:20 -0500
- Thread-topic: Applying permissions to all files in all subfolders
On 8/15/07 15:53 PM, "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Technically, you only attach it to the folder you're adding items to. That
>> can be, depending on how much work you wish to do, anywhere, really. As long
>> as you add the requisite items to the same place, the physical location of
>> the folder is rather unimportant, as long as the script can see everything
>> it needs to.
>
> Yes, but the OP specifically wanted to ensure that new folders dropped
> into the hierarchy had the action attached to them, and new folders
> dropped in them later got it, etc.
Heh, so script that too.
>
>
>> It makes it less work to write and test. chmod is hardly l33t shell stuff.
>> It's not 233 lines of perl.
>
> Of course not. But neither is "chmod 0775" or even "chmod
> ug=rwx,o=rx" going to leap to the fingers of someone unfamiliar with
> the UNIX command line. :) Not that the Finder's "set privileges" is
> necessarily more intuitive, but it's easier to locate for someone used
> to AppleScript.
Remember, the Finder cannot set all three modes of POSIX permissions. The
Finder, even in Mac OS X 10.4, really only understands read and write. If
you want to explicitly set the execute bit separately, you cannot do that in
the Finder.
>> The other advantage chmod has, is that if you ever need to operate in an ACL
>> environment, chmod can apply ACLs, whereas the Finder can barely read them.
>
> That admittedly hadn't occurred to me. ACLs are still newfangled in my mind.
> :)
They're quite excellent, but again, the Finder can't deal with them
correctly.
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ground...a fearsome creature indeed.
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