'permissions-fixing shell script' fails on directories with spaces in them

[hansvana]

My /user/pages has dirs and files in it with spaces in the name, which makes the suggested permissions-fixing shell script fail:

Say I have a ./user/pages/this has spaces/default.md:

chmod: cannot access ‘./user/pages/this’: No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access ‘has’: No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access ‘spaces/default.md’: No such file or directory

However, after some googling, I found this script to work for me:

chown foo:bar .
chown -R foo:bar *
find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
find ./bin -type f -exec chmod 775 {} \;
find . -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
find . -type f -exec chmod +s {} \;
umask 0002

I don't know enough about the subject matter to be sure this does the same thing as the suggested script, by I just thought it ought to be looked at.

[ghost]

find -exec is extremely slow but supports most systems. find . -print0 | xargs -0 is the right way but doesn't work in broken systems (aka OSX). My opinion is that using spaces in path, specially in a web directory, is a bad practice and the script is fine in its current form.