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Recursively remove unnecessary executable-flags

Arne Hartherz
September 07, 2010Software engineer at makandra GmbH

Sometimes files attain executable-flags that they do not need, e.g. when your Windows VM copies them over a Samba share onto your machine.

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From inside your Rails project directory call regularly:

geordi remove-executable-flags

Runs chmod -x on Ruby, HTML, CSS, image, Rake and similar files.


This script is part of our geordi gem on github Show archive.org snapshot .

Posted by Arne Hartherz to makandra dev (2010-09-07 10:13)