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Subject: Re: chmod / files and directories
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On Tuesday 11 September 2007 13:15:55 Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote:
> On Monday 10 of September 2007 17:56:12 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I did read man chmod but I am not really wiser. Is there an option to
> > recursively set 755 permissions for directories and 644 for files?
> > When I just issue
> > chmod -R 755 /usr/local/www/data/wp/
> > then all files and directories under wp/ are given permissions 755
> > which is not what I want.
>
> Maybe also in such way:
> # find /usr/local/www/data/wp -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
> # chmod -R a+X /usr/local/www/data/wp

That's the equivalent of chmod -R 755, since it sets exec bit on everything.
Assuming all directories are already executable and files are not, the 
shortcut would be:
chmod -R o+w,go-w,a+r /usr/local/www/data/wp

-- 
Mel