Re: Recursively changes rights for directories only?
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
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: As root I moved a directory structure. So that any user could read/write files I recursively changed modes for
: all files and directories to rw (i.e. chmod 666 *). Dumb me, eh? I now need to recursively change all directories only
: to xr instead of rw. What is an easy and quick way to do this? I thought of using 'ls -dR' and piping 'chmod' through it:
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: ls -dR | chmod 555 *
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: but ls -d just gives me . .. and no directory names.
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: What should I do to change these rights?
cd to the base dir where you wish to change permissions, and do
find . -type d | xargs chmod 555
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