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Re: Permission change - recursive



On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 11:46, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> I just noticed that for an entire directory of files and folders, the 
> permissions are not really right.
> 
> Or maybe it doesn't matter.  I went ahead and changed all permission 
> recursively, but feel that permissions should be as follows: for all 
> files 660, whereas for all directories 770.  Has anyone written a 
> script that will drill through a directory and change all the 
> permissions in such a manner?

Just off the top of my head here:

for i in `find . -iname '*' -or -iname '.*'`; do
  if [ -d $i ]; then
    chmod 770 $i
  else
    chmod 660 $i
  fi
done

That should do it for you.
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