debian wheezy chmod broken

[crp]

the recursive option for chmod is not working.

how can i replicate this from a 'home' directory down through its sub-directories?

i want to make all .xiv and .XIV files read-write for the group.

[jimg]

Something like this in a shell script?

#!/bin/sh

#set field splitters
IFS="$(printf '\n\t')"

#recursive scan of current folder looking for .xiv files
for f in $(find . -name '*.xiv' -or -name '*.XIV'); do
chmod g+w "$f";
done

Edited July 22, 2015 by jimg

[crp]

thanks, it seemed to basically work.

Now I have to refresh my script skills so that it shows what it is doing on all files it finds instead of just the failures

and how to pass in the extension as a variable.