How to make all files non-executable recursively using find without affecting directories?

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I need to strip the executable flag from all files within a certain directory and sub directories. Right now I'm doing it with a 2 step process Is it possible to modify the first line so that I can strip exec flag from all non-directory files? Since this needs to be done on a fairly regular basis a…

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find /dir/ -type f -exec chmod ugo-x {} \;
find /dir/ -type d -exec chmod ugo+rx {} \;

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