Hi! On Sun Dec 14, 2003 at 01:15:01PM +0100, Stephen Turner wrote: > Anyway, i have been using chmod. I wanted to change all my files to > 775 in one folder. I used the -R addition. But it did not work. > > It gives me the message 'too few arguments'.
So you gave it too few arguments ;-). chmod always wants the FILE
argument:
Usage: chmod [OPTION]... MODE[,MODE]... FILE...
or: chmod [OPTION]... OCTAL-MODE FILE...
or: chmod [OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE...
If you are in the directory where you want to change all subdirectories
you just type:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/foo$ chmod -R 775 .
where . means "current directory". So chmod starts to walk down to every
subdir from the current working directory on.
But I wonder why you want ALL files AND directories change to 775? Do
you really want all files executable? Or just the directories? This
could be done through following trick:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/foo$ find . -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
And to change all files to 664 (without exec flag):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/foo$ find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
So long
Thomas
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