How to run command on subfolder of wildcard folders?-CodePudding

Say I have this structure:

Some Folder 1/...
Some Folder 2/...
Adobe After Effects 2020/Scripts/
Adobe After Effects 2020/foo/
Adobe After Effects 2020/bar/
Adobe After Effects 2021/Scripts/
Adobe After Effects 2021/etc/
Adobe After Effects 2022/Scripts/
Another Folder/...

I want to change permissions on all the Scripts subfolders. I tried:

chmod -R o rw 'Adobe After Effects */Scripts'

But that doesn't work. Any way to accomplish this using wildcards?

CodePudding user response：

Wildcards are not expanded inside quotes, but you should be able to use this. Note that the * is now outside the quotes.

chmod -R o rw 'Adobe After Effects '*'/Scripts'

That will make the specified change on all files and directories with the 'Adobe After Effects' start and the Scripts subdirectory. I'm not sure that o rw is a good choice of permission, but you can fix that to suit yourself. I'd be more likely to use o r,o-w.

CodePudding user response：

Did you try ?

find -type d -name "Adobe After Effects *" -print0 | xargs -0 -I{.} find {.} -type d -name "Scripts" -exec chmod -R o rw {} \;

It uses nested find as explained in https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/18101/249463