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From: Baptiste Grenier <baptiste.grenier@healthgrid.org>
To: Zbigniew Szalbot <z.szalbot@lc-words.com>
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Subject: Re: chmod operation on directories / files
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Le 07/05/08 =E0 14:00, Zbigniew Szalbot t=E9l=E9scripta :
> Hello,

Hi,

> How do I chmod separately files and directories?
>
> If I use chmod -R 644 then it will go through all the subdirectories=20
> assigning everything 644 permissions, directories including.
>

Using find(1), you can try something like this:

For files:
  find /plop -type f -exec chmod 644 '{}' \;

For dirs:
  find /plop -type d -exec chmod 755 '{}' \;

> Many thanks!

HTH,
Baptiste

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