On Jan 23,  1:15am, thieleke@icaen.uiowa.edu wrote:
} Subject: Re: Recursive grep (where is limfree defined?)
} I don't think a recursive grep is any worse than a recursive chown or 
} chmod.  You can accomplish all three with using 'find xargs', but it is more 
} convenient to let the command take care of it.  

IMHO recursive chmod is worthless.  In general I don't want the same
permission bits on files and directories.