On Tuesday January 13 2009, Henare Degan wrote:

Hi list,

I want to change permissions on a large directory structure to only RW for the owner of all the files. If I:

chmod -R 600 /path/of/directory

it won't work because it removes the 'x' bit from the directory, which prevents traversal. The only solution I've come up with is to:

chmod -R 700 /path/to/directory

and then:

chmod 600 `find /path/to/directory -type f`

Which seems like a round-about way to achieve this (and needs some hackery it you have messy file names, like ones with '-' in the path), what's the "correct" way?

Look into the symbolic mode changing syntax, which includes incremental notations for adding or removing permissions. E.g.: # Add execute permissions: % chmod +x ... # Remove write permissions: % chmod -g ... # Take away write permissions only from group and world (all): % chmod ga-w ... # Give owner write and read permissions: % chmod o+rw ... etc.

Cheers,

h

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El Miércoles, 14 de Enero de 2009 Henare Degan escribió:

Hi list,

I want to change permissions on a large directory structure to only RW for the owner of all the files. If I:

chmod -R 600 /path/of/directory

it won't work because it removes the 'x' bit from the directory, which prevents traversal. The only solution I've come up with is to:

chmod -R 700 /path/to/directory

and then:

chmod 600 `find /path/to/directory -type f`

Which seems like a round-about way to achieve this (and needs some hackery it you have messy file names, like ones with '-' in the path), what's the "correct" way?

find <path> -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -l1-n1 chmod -c u=rw

Cheers,

h

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I want to change permissions on a large directory structure to only RW for the owner of all the files. If I: ...

Another method: use midnight commander (mc). Tell it to find all files in the directory tree, select "panelize", mark them all (*), then in the file menu select chmod. I don't know if it is better or worse, but it is easier to remember ;-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkltRPwACgkQtTMYHG2NR9X7vgCgir4QwS8tlKKVloOhF2RO6+EN HtgAoJen+mJ96uLx5uf92OYWf280cNlI =g9j4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Hello, On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Henare Degan wrote:

I want to change permissions on a large directory structure to only RW for the owner of all the files. If I:

chmod -R 600 /path/of/directory

it won't work because it removes the 'x' bit from the directory, which prevents traversal. The only solution I've come up with is to:

chmod -R 700 /path/to/directory

and then:

chmod 600 `find /path/to/directory -type f`

Which seems like a round-about way to achieve this (and needs some hackery it you have messy file names, like ones with '-' in the path), what's the "correct" way?

The command chmod -R u=rwX,go= /path/to/directory should do exactly what you want. HTH, -dnh -- In /etc is what you think. In /proc is, what the OS thinks. -- Thomas Blum in doc -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org