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Date:      Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:10:07 +0100
From:      Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: chmod / files and directories
Message-ID:  <20070910161006.GB20159@catflap.slightlystrange.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070910160607.GA20159@catflap.slightlystrange.org>
References:  <94136a2c0709100856q768b101as96e1e6d16312d374@mail.gmail.com> <20070910160607.GA20159@catflap.slightlystrange.org>

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On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 05:06:07PM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote:
> 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!
=20
Sorry, that *should* have been:

  # find /usr/local/www/data/wp -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
  # find /usr/local/www/data/wp -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

But I guess you would have realised that!

Dan

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