chmod operation on directories / files

Yi Wang wangyi6854 at gmail.com
Wed May 7 14:39:27 UTC 2008


sorry, I forgot to reply to all.

for directorys, you can use:
chmod 755 */

if the files have a suffix. you can use
chmod 644 *.*

for the files don't have the suffix, I guess a regex should solve it.
But I'm not familiar with regex. :-)

On 5/7/08, Catalin Miclaus <catalin at starcomms.com> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
>  From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>  [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Zbigniew
>  Szalbot
>  Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:57 PM
>  To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>  Subject: chmod operation on directories / files
>
>  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!
>
>  --
>  Zbigniew Szalbot
>  www.lc-words.com
>
>
>
>
>
> find /test -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
>
>  Replace /test with full path to your directory.
>  For directories use '-type d'.
>
>
>
>
>  Best Regards
>
> Catalin Miclaus
>  Network/Security ISP-Data
>  Starcomms Ltd.
>
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-- 
Regards,
Wang Yi


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