Thread: chmod Recursively all directories to 755 and files to 646

Hi guys..
How to
chmod Recursively all directories to 755 and files to 646 at once.

thanks

At once not possible but one by one you can set it up:

Code:

find -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} chmod 755 {}
find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} chmod 646 {}

type -d == Dirs
type -f == Files

bash 4.0

Code:

shopt -s globstar
for file in **
do
  if [ -d "$file" ]; then
      chmod 755 "$file"
  elif [ -f "$file" ];then
      chmod 646 "$file"
  fi
 done

using find

Code:

find /path | while read -r FILE
do
  [ -d "$FILE" ] && chmod 755 "$FILE"
  [ -f "$FILE" ] && chmod 646 "$FILE"
done

Originally Posted by ghostdog74

bash 4.0

Code:

for file in **
do
  if [ -d "$file" ]; then
      chmod 755 "$file"
  elif [ -f "$file" ];then
      chmod 646 "$file"
  fi
 done

I think this will not go into subdir like find command does. Also it may fail when there are too many files. I don't have bash 4 man page installed here but I'm now going to get more info via gnu.org.

Hi , how about

Code:

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Originally Posted by nixcraft

I think this will not go into subdir like find command does. Also it may fail when there are too many files. I don't have bash 4 man page installed here but I'm now going to get more info via gnu.org.

it will, if globstar is set , which i forgot to include