Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:06:07 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chmod / files and directories Message-ID: <20070910160607.GA20159@catflap.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <94136a2c0709100856q768b101as96e1e6d16312d374@mail.gmail.com> References: <94136a2c0709100856q768b101as96e1e6d16312d374@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 05:56:12PM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> 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.
> I can do it manually but since there are manyt subdirectories I
> thought I would make my life easier. Many thanks in advance!
find(1) is your friend here:
# find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
# find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
Dan
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