Re: Permission change - recursive

[Ken Irving <fnkci@uaf.edu>]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 09:46:06AM -0800, 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?

There are recursive options to chmod, but I prefer using find to do this
sort of thing, e.g.,

   $ find some_dir -type d -exec echo chmod 0770 {} \;
   $ find some_dir -type f -exec echo chmod 0660 {} \;

The echo is there so that the actions can be inspected before actually 
doing them.

Ken

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Ken Irving
Water and Environmental Research Center
Institute of Northern Engineering
University of Alaska, Fairbanks