Hey all -

Running FEDORA Core 11 here. I'm EDITING my .bash_profile so it will execute the following:

alias "chmodWeb"="chmod ugo-rwx *.* | chmod u+rwx *.* | chmod o+rx *.*"

Theoretically, this should take all files and folders within a given directory and change the permissions as follows:

u: rwx
g: ---
o: r-x

However, when I run this, it's.... strange. I have yet to get ANYTHING consistent from this. Sometimes it changes the permissions of one out of four files to rwx------, sometimes it changes all of them to ------r-x. Can someone HELP me figure out what is going on and how to fix it? If you've got another idea for quickly changing permissions to rwx---r-x via command line without installing additional software, I'm all ears. Well, eyes, in this case.

Thanks!Why are you using the pipe symbol?  Did you mean ';' instead of '|'? Quote from: Rob Pomeroy on March 14, 2012, 05:38:51 AM

Why are you using the pipe symbol?  Did you mean ';' instead of '|'?

Pipe takes the output of the command to the left of the pipe and sends it as input to the command to the right of the pipe.

I really don't think you want to execute these commands simultaneously.  If for example the first command happened to run a millisecond after the second and third commands, you'd just end up undoing the effects of the latter commands.  (Think about it.)

Anyway, as it happens, the Gnu version of chmod can do all this in one command, so how about this instead:
Code: [Select]alias chmodWeb="chmod g-rwx,u+rwx,o+rx *"
The ".*" is redundant in Linux/Unix.  You're thinking of Windows/DOS.