Change attributes of all symlink targets in a directory

Question

How to change attributes of all symlink targets inside a directory ?

/usr/bin/find /mydir -type l | xargs /bin/readlink | /usr/bin/chattr +s

piping three commands wont works.

Thanks.

Answer 1

/usr/bin/find /mydir -type l -exec /bin/readlink {} \; | xargs -d'\n' /usr/bin/chattr +s

This will

1. find the links and return the targets, newline separated, through the readlink utility and
2. split incoming arguments on newline and run chattr on all targets.

A problem could occur if you have newlines within file names, but that is usually just a hypothetical problem.

Answer 2

/usr/bin/find /mydir -type l -exec /usr/bin/chattr +s '{}' \;