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in reply to Re^2: Malware on CPAN
in thread Malware on CPAN

Say, why would you do while loop instead of xargs ...

find ... -print0 | xargs -0 chmod ...

... ?

Somewhat related, I have come to like symbolic permission modes to selectively modify the permissions while preserving the rest ...

# Strip group- & world-write permissions. chmod -R g-w,o-w directory