[aklug] Re: chmod

step one:
chmod -R 755 $mnt

Step 2
find $mnt -t d -exec chmod {} \+

Which is about the least number of exec's you can have.

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"Scott A. Johnson" <scott.a.johnson@gmail.com> wrote:



I have tens of thousands of files nested inside several thousand directories on a data dump drive. I need to set different chmod levels for the files inside the directories, but a different chmod for the directories themselves. Example, the directories need to be 777 while the files are 755. Can I do this easily? Luckily I don't need to set different chmod levels for different/various files and/or directories. ALL the files should be 755 - ALL the directories 777. Unfortunatley: "sh# chmod -R 777 /" doesn't work since it will set the directories and files to be the same.

Thanks.

Scott

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Scott A. Johnson
scott.a.johnson@gmail.com<mailto:scott.a.johnson@gmail.com>

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Received on Tue Feb 12 21:32:39 2013