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Subject: Re: changing directory permissions recursively
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Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2004, dave wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>   I've got a problem, a directory area has the wrong permissions, occurred
> 
>>from a dump restore. Now my user's can't get to the files within the area. I
> 
>>could go around and do chmod permissions directoryname, but i was wondering
>>if there was a perl or shell script that would do this?
> 
> cd $topdir
> find . -type d | xargs chmod 755

In case (potentially) untrusted users have had write permission in this 
directory tree in the past, a safer alternative would be

   find /path/to/tree/root -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755

Better safe than sorry.

    Uwe
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