Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 00:03:16 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chmod operation on directories / files Message-ID: <20080508000316.158d6d7c@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20080507123747.GA5430@localhost.ok.cox.net> References: <482198FA.8070708@lc-words.com> <20080507123747.GA5430@localhost.ok.cox.net>
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On Wed, 7 May 2008 07:37:47 -0500
Gordon devel <user0@tkgeomap.org> wrote:
> 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.
Or you could "+" instead of \;
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