Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 07:37:47 -0500 From: Gordon devel <user0@tkgeomap.org> To: Zbigniew Szalbot <z.szalbot@lc-words.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chmod operation on directories / files Message-ID: <20080507123747.GA5430@localhost.ok.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <482198FA.8070708@lc-words.com> References: <482198FA.8070708@lc-words.com>
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On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 01:56:42PM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
>
> How do I chmod separately files and directories?
>
> If I use chmod -R 644 then it will go through all the subdirectories
> assigning everything 644 permissions, directories including.
>
How about?
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
If there are a lot of them, you might want to pipe to xargs.
Cheers,
Gordon
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