Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3539 mails)

[Erwin Lam <erwinlam@xxxxxx>]

On Saturday 14 June 2008 23:12:05 Rodney Baker wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:45:58 Rikard Johnels wrote:
> > Hello all!
> >
> > I am (unsuccessfully) trying to arrange the usermod and permissions
> > on some 5.000 folders and 20.000 files. (My music collection)
> > I cant for my life compose a script that:
> > a. Will set all directories to chmod 755
> > b, will set all regular files to perm 644

> To change all the subdirectories of the current working directory:
>
> find -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0755
>
> This will find all directories under the current directory and set
> their perms to 0755.
>
> Similarly with the files:
> find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0644.


I think the following commands will do:

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 \{\} \;
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 \{\} \;

No need to use xargs. Also note the use of "." to indicate the current 
directory, which the previous poster forgot.


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Erwin Lam (erwinlam@xxxxxx)
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