Find command showing files that do not exist

Question

I recently updated my drupal files from another server.

There are about 50k files.

I need to change the permissions on the files to 644

When I run:

find . type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

From with in the files dir.

I get the following output:

chmod: cannot access ./file1.jpg No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access ./file2.jpg No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access ./file3.jpg No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access ./file4.jpg No such file or directory

Any idea why this is happening?

Those files should not exist, they may have been there before the move but i am not sure.

Is this actual output, or a made-up example? Could there be filenames in the list that have spaces in the name? — Slartibartfast, Mar 26 '19 at 05:59

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 26 '19 at 06:01

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I suggest:

find . type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644

This command will execute chmod with lots of files for each iteration, and won't be impacted if the filenames have special caracters.

answered Mar 26 '19 at 06:01

Slartibartfast

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using find . type f -exec chmod 644 {} + should work well too. – user9517 Mar 26 '19 at 08:11

Find command showing files that do not exist

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