[Linux-disciples] Easy Question - Changing Permissions a list of files

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 09:29:11AM -0500, Jason Smith wrote:
> I am sure there is a way to say "Please change the permissions to all  
> the files in this directory to ugo+rwx" or some such.

You can do

chmod -R ugo+rwx dirName

where 'dirName' is the name of your directory.

Note that the sexy way to do the above command is

chmod -R 777 dirName

though you'd really never want to be that liberal in your
permission-granting. Probably the safest thing to do, in
that vein, would be something like

find dirName -type d -exec chmod +x '{}' \;

followed by

find dirName -not -type d -exec chmod +rw '{}' \;

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