[CoLoCo] permission question

[Paul Hummer]

Collins Richey wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:
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>> Okay, I'm getting it about right. However, all the directories are set to
>> drw-r--r-- (i.e. no x). Is there a way to change the dirs to 755 or 655 or
>> whatever is right without doing it one by one? Using -R will affect files
>> too I suppose.
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> Now would be a fine time to learn about the intricacies of using find
> to search out directories only and piping the found directory names to
> a command that applies the changes. Warning, you'll want to do a dry
> run that only echos the commands first!
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> A little googling should bring up thousands of examples for this very
> common tool set.
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A quick fix is:

cd $HOME
find . -type d | xargs chmod 0755
find . -type f | xargs chmod 0644

This will give you a general file reset.  However, things like .dmrc and 
.xsession need special file settings made.  You'll have to dig through 
those and set them all manually.

Paul