[Mono-dev] chmod allows wildcards?

Robert Jordan robertj at gmx.net
Thu Nov 12 05:53:39 EST 2009


Hi,

APS wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to chmod a directory with all contained files.
> I saw Mono.Unix.Native.Syscall.chmod Method but I cant understand if it 
> can be used as recursive or with wildcards.
> To set 700 to all files in a folder I can do 
> Mono.Unix.Native.Syscall.chmod('/path/*', S_IRUSR & S_IWUSR & S_IXUSR) ?

Syscalls and libc functions don't support wildcards.
Even the corresponding command line tools do not support
them as it's the job of the shell to expand wildcards.

Robert



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