why it doens't open ?

[Heiko Berges]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:29:17AM -0800, Jack Coates wrote:
> chmod a-x directory will make the directory break.
> 
> chmod a-x directory/* is better, but will break subdirectories.
> 
> find directory -type d | xargs chmod a+x $1 will fix them.


even better: 

	find directory -perm -111 -exec chmod a-x {} \;

does it all at once and doesn't break for filenames with spaces
in it. You may don't want this because it walks through all
subdirectories.

If you have gnu fileutils you can do :

	chmod a-X directory/*


	Heiko