Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:01:35 +0530 From: Shantanoo Mahajan <shantanoo@gmail.com> To: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chmod / files and directories Message-ID: <A2DB3A06-0AC3-4975-AAD0-75638560AC76@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070910161006.GB20159@catflap.slightlystrange.org> References: <94136a2c0709100856q768b101as96e1e6d16312d374@mail.gmail.com> <20070910160607.GA20159@catflap.slightlystrange.org> <20070910161006.GB20159@catflap.slightlystrange.org>
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On 10-Sep-07, at 9:40 PM, Daniel Bye wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 05:06:07PM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 05:56:12PM +0200, 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.
>>> I can do it manually but since there are manyt subdirectories I
>>> thought I would make my life easier. Many thanks in advance!
>
> Sorry, that *should* have been:
>
> # find /usr/local/www/data/wp -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
> # find /usr/local/www/data/wp -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
# find /usr/local/www/data/wp -type f -exec chmod 644 '{}' \;
# find /usr/local/www/data/wp -type d -exec chmod 755 '{}' \;
To be on safer side. :)
regards,
shantanoo
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