So does it wait until it has found all the matches to run the command as a giant batch instead of running it as it finds matches?
Indeed. If possible, it is typically what you want (as opposed to find ... -exec ... {} \; which runs command for each found file) since it will run faster. You want find ... -exec ... {} \; if the command you’re executing can run on single file only or you’re dealing with legacy system without -exec ... {} + support.
But I need x on directory, because that’s required to enter/read the directory. If I understand properly.
That’s why bacon listed find ${path} -type d exec chmod 750 {}; as first command. See also my reply.
X applies to directories and executable files. Presumably, OP wants
to clear the executable bits from any files and +X won’t do that.
As root:
cd /filesystem/in/question
chown myuser:media -R /filesystem/in/question
find -exec chacl -B -- {} +
find -exec chmod 644 -- {} +
find -type d -exec chmod 755 -- {} +
This is not a legitimate issue. It’s like complaining that wget
reads proxy settings from /etc/wgetrc. It’s absolutely proper for
programs to read system- or user-level configuration if the
configuration is not specified via environment variables or command
line options.
The typical setting hierarchy goes something like:
uBlock Origin and mouse copy and paste works perfectly well in Firefox.
He made an edgy/abhorrent¹ joke years ago for which he apologised and Lemmy is even worse than Reddit so people still lach onto that.
¹ Whether it was just edgy or much worse than that I leave to the reader to decide. The joke was that he paid some guys in Africa to make a sign saying ‘Hitler did nothing wrong’ or something to that effect. This one of the things that likely contributed to adpocalypse on YouTube.
Switch to a non-buggy browser.
Yes. I’m just keeping the symbols file in home directory so that I don’t have to edit the system files. To change backspace you’d have something like the following I believe:
key <BKSP> { [ BackSpace, Delete ] };
My approach is to define custom keymap and enable it in xinitrc. Might be worth a try though I’ve no idea how that interacts with Wayland.
Hot take: Lemmy is an even bigger piece of garbage than Reddit.
It’s trivial. Use Linux Mint or Debian, enable non-free repositories if required, and that’s pretty much it.
I’ve never had issues with Nvidia drivers. Your mileage may vary.
It is a product of its time. If the same research was made 30 years ago, I bet there would be a stark difference to results today. LTO wasn’t as feasible. Compilers were less capable of removing redundant checks. Branch prediction in x86 processors was still a hot new thing. And on top of it all, there was less knowledge about language development.
If this was easy, then people would’ve done this a long time ago.
People have done it. It’s called Edge, Opera, Vivaldi etc. And looking at it historically, Safari is a branch from the same tree as well.
Who cares what anyone on r/macos thinks.
If everything else fails, there’s always an option of defining your own keymap and enabling it in initrc.
Admittedly, I’m probably not the best person to ask for recommendation of a noob-friendly distro, but I feel people are overthinking this. If someone produces a list which includes distros I’ve never heard of, I think they spent too much time on ‘Top 10 Noob Friendly Distros in 2025’ websites.
If you really care about my recommendation, just start with Mint.
PS. I should also add, this isn’t criticism of you or any other new user who does search online for recommendation. This is more a comment on state of the Internet where there are so many websites which seem to pad their list with obscure distros where really all such articles should give recommendation for one of the same three distributions. Which three I don’t exactly know.
src/* will skip hidden files. You want rsync -avAXUNH src/ dst which copies contents of src into dst. Notice the trailing slash in src/. Without the slash, src is copied into dst so you end up with a src directory in dst. The AXUNH enables preserving more things. You might also add --delete if you’re updating the copy.
PS. I should also mention how I end up with -avAXUNH. Simple:
$ man rsync |grep ' -. *preserve'
--hard-links, -H preserve hard links
--perms, -p preserve permissions
--executability, -E preserve executability
--acls, -A preserve ACLs (implies --perms)
--xattrs, -X preserve extended attributes
--owner, -o preserve owner (super-user only)
--group, -g preserve group
--times, -t preserve modification times
--atimes, -U preserve access (use) times
--crtimes, -N preserve create times (newness)
and then include all that. a covers some of those options and those
don’t have to be set explicitly:
$ man rsync |grep ' -a ' |head -n1
--archive, -a archive mode is -rlptgoD (no -A,-X,-U,-N,-H)
What others wrote except don’t use dd. Use rsync or make a backup with tar. dd will waste time reading unallocated regions of the disk.
find -type f -exec chmod 644 -- {} + find -type d -exec chmod 755 -- {} +will only affect regular files and directories. There are other type of files (specifically block and character devices, named pipes and sockets) which those two commands would leave unaffected. In practice, I suspect you don’t have any of those to worry about so you can use
-find f.