Ross Thomas said: >> chmod -x `find . -type f` > For small numbers of files. > Also, only files. > > This would be more appropriate: > find . ! -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod -x Excellent. Thank you. I had the problem of too many files for backticks to work some time ago, I guess it's time for me to get more friendly with xargs. Cheerful regards, Bob