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Date:      Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:15:55 +0200
From:      Zbigniew Komarnicki <cblasius@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: chmod / files and directories
Message-ID:  <200709111315.55658.cblasius@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <94136a2c0709100856q768b101as96e1e6d16312d374@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <94136a2c0709100856q768b101as96e1e6d16312d374@mail.gmail.com>

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On Monday 10 of September 2007 17:56:12 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.

Maybe also in such way:
# find /usr/local/www/data/wp -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
# chmod -R a+X /usr/local/www/data/wp 

of course if you have symbolic links there see for additional options in chmod 
command as for example -L, -P, H.






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