[talk] Recursive chmod problem

[ori at eigenstate.org]

Quoth Jonathan Drews <jondrews at fastmail.com>:
> Hi Gals & Guys:
> 
>  I have a problem which happens both on OpenBSD and Debian Linux. 
> 
> $ chmod -R 660 *.pdf
> 
> does not change entries in directories.

of course; think about what globs expand to. Do you have
any directories named 'dir.pdf'? if not, how would they
show up in the glob?

	echo chmod -R 660 *pdf

will let you see the expanded command.