[ale] chmod -R ?

[rs at ale.spam.futz.org]

>find . -name '*.txt' -exec chmod a-x {} \; -print

xargs is your friend:

find . -name '*.txt' -print0 | xargs -0  chmod a-x

This will save you from exec'ing chmod for every single txt file..

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