chmod / files and directories

[Shantanoo Mahajan]

On 10-Sep-07, at 9:40 PM, Daniel Bye wrote:

> 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 {} \;

# find /usr/local/www/data/wp -type f -exec chmod 644 '{}' \;
# find /usr/local/www/data/wp -type d -exec chmod 755 '{}' \;

To be on safer side. :)

regards,
shantanoo