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Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 07:37:47 -0500
From: Gordon devel <user0@tkgeomap.org>
To: Zbigniew Szalbot <z.szalbot@lc-words.com>
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Subject: Re: chmod operation on directories / files
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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