CHMOD recursively
by Nazly on Monday, 29th September 2008 08:34:58
Time to time I come across this problem when I have to move large portions of directories and files from one location to another. Mostly after extracting from tar archives. The directory/file permissions are often messed up depending on the source I copied them or based on the way I copied/archived them. So I used to use this technique to CHMOD directories and files recursively. Today when I was using this I thought of blogging it for my own future reference. If there is a better way feel free to comment.
CHMOD directories only
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
CHMOD files only
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
4 comments
I'm sure you have tried chmod -R [directory]
by Kosala on September 29, 2008 at 14:40. #
yes of course. Thats quite basic considering if want to CHMOD both dirs and files. But the case is bit different here since sometimes I only want to CHMOD the directories not the files. In this case I find this option handy
by Nazly on September 29, 2008 at 15:18. #
Thanks! Was searching for this for long.
by Grischa on May 31, 2009 at 21:01. #
This is a cool trick.
Thanks.
by Ivan Radisson on June 26, 2009 at 07:51. #