Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:46:13 +0200 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chmod / files and directories Message-ID: <200709122346.13728.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <200709122334.32323.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <94136a2c0709100856q768b101as96e1e6d16312d374@mail.gmail.com> <200709111315.55658.cblasius@gmail.com> <200709122334.32323.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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On Wednesday 12 September 2007 23:34:31 Mel wrote:
> 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
Naturally that's u+w.
I shall proofread before pressing send.
--
Mel
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