How to remove executable bit recursively from files (not directories)
Problem
When I plug-in an USB stick (FAT) into my Mac or Ubuntu machine, all files have the executable bits set. After having copied the directory structure to my hard disk how do I remove the executable bits recursively just from the files and keep those on the directories?
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Fix for: How to remove executable bit recursively from files (not directories)
With GNU (on Ubuntu) single command variant (starting in the current directory): Explanation: - operate recursively - remove executable flags for all users - set executable flags for all users if it is a directory In this case the capital applies only to directories because all executable flags were cleared by . Otherwise sets executable flag(s) also if the flag was originally set for any of user, group or others. With BSD (which is present on Mac OS X) you have to do it separately in two comma…
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