On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:35:12 -0500 John Pierce <john.j35@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Does anyone know of a bash script that will recurse through a series > of directories and strip the executable bit from the files in those > directories and not the directories. I think this will do what you want, or something close to it. You may have to play with the chmod permission numbers a bit depending on exactly what you need to get out of it. for i in `find $1` do if [ -d $i ] ; then chmod 755 $i echo $i else chmod 644 $i echo $i fi done -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com