Hello,

 

In the past, I was an advocate of the -p --parents option for

mkdir. By now this is realised. Now I'm doing the same for chmod.

 

I want this option for chmod for the following reason.

I want my home directory shut. I do this with

"chmod -R gw-rwx". The problem arises when I want to

set open some file for group or world. Then I have to set

open each directory level concerning this file. These

can be numerious directories. All this is cumbersome, and a

waist of time and energy.

 

I want to be able to execute the following:

chmod a+rx -p ~/dir1/dir2/dir3/file.ext
It should be more refined however: the dirs

should be rx, but the file only r.

 

Please let me hear something.

 

Best regards,

 

Francky Leyn,

 

www.Leyn.eu