Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:18:16 +0000 From: Pollywog <lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chmod / files and directories Message-ID: <200709101718.16467.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> In-Reply-To: <A2DB3A06-0AC3-4975-AAD0-75638560AC76@gmail.com> References: <94136a2c0709100856q768b101as96e1e6d16312d374@mail.gmail.com> <20070910161006.GB20159@catflap.slightlystrange.org> <A2DB3A06-0AC3-4975-AAD0-75638560AC76@gmail.com>
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On Monday 10 September 2007 16:31:35 Shantanoo Mahajan wrote:
> 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 '{}' \;
Why the single quotes around the {} ? I don't think I have seen that before
and I want to understand it before I save it in my notes. I have often
wanted to perform the same task but I did not know if there was a way.
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