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From: "Valerio Daelli" <valerio.daelli@gmail.com>
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Try with

find -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Bye

Valerio Daelli

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Zbigniew Szalbot <z.szalbot@lc-words.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> 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.
>
> Many thanks!
>
> --
> Zbigniew Szalbot
> www.lc-words.com
>