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, > > > > 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! 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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