chmod / files and directories

[Zbigniew Komarnicki]

On Monday 10 of September 2007 17:56:12 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.

Maybe also in such way:
# find /usr/local/www/data/wp -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
# chmod -R a+X /usr/local/www/data/wp 

of course if you have symbolic links there see for additional options in chmod 
command as for example -L, -P, H.