On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: : : As root I moved a directory structure. So that any user could read/write files I recursively changed modes for : all files and directories to rw (i.e. chmod 666 *). Dumb me, eh? I now need to recursively change all directories only : to xr instead of rw. What is an easy and quick way to do this? I thought of using 'ls -dR' and piping 'chmod' through it: : : ls -dR | chmod 555 * : : but ls -d just gives me . .. and no directory names. : : What should I do to change these rights?
cd to the base dir where you wish to change permissions, and do find . -type d | xargs chmod 555 -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
