chmod operation on directories / files

Julien Cigar jcigar at ulb.ac.be
Wed May 7 12:25:56 UTC 2008


find your_dir -type (f|d) | xargs | chmod ...

or

find your_dir -type (f|d) -exec chmod {} \;

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 13:56 +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> How do I chmod separately files and directories?
> 
> If I use chmod -R 644 then it will go through all the subdirectories 
> assigning everything 644 permissions, directories including.
> 
> Many thanks!
> 
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