[tex-live] Bad perms in 2016 texmf ?

Ken Moffat zarniwhoop at ntlworld.com
Sat Jun 25 19:10:00 CEST 2016


On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 09:20:00AM +0200, texlive at schoepfer.info wrote:
> > At the moment I'm reinstalling again (I've lost count of the times
> > I've done this, but at least my i7 is quite quick) :
> > 
> >  find -perm 600 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 700 -exec chmod ...
> > 
> > is only chmodding the files matched by the last test.  Retrying with
> > xargs.
> 
> Maybe
>  chmod -R u+w,go-w,a+rX-st PATH
> does the trick for you.
> 
I'm told I needed parentheses because there is an implicit AND
before the -exec, with a higher priority than OR.

But yes, recursive chmod like that might be simpler.

ĸen
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