Nazly's BLOG

CHMOD recursively

Posted by Nazly on Monday, 29th September 2008 14:04:58 (GMT +0530)

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 {} \;


Comments

I'm sure you have tried chmod -R [directory] ;)
Posted by Kosala on Monday, 29th September 2008 14:40:55 (GMT +0530)

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
Posted by Nazly on Monday, 29th September 2008 15:18:01 (GMT +0530)



Post Comments

* Name :
Email (optional) :
Homepage URL (preferred) : http://
* Comments :
* Enter the code shown below :
  Verification Code