How to change the permissions of files in a directory recursively

[Nerijus Kriaučiūnas]

Hi,

Have you tried chown -R /var/www/html/foo/* ?

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On 24 Apr 2017, 21:16, at 21:16, Jim <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>How can I leave the permission of a directory at 755 and change the 
>permissions of all of it's files to 766? Everything I have tried and 
>what I have found googling ends up setting the dir and file permissions
>
>the same.
>
>So if I have /var/www/html/foo/  I want foo to remain at 755 and files 
>in foo to change to 766.
>
>Thanks,  Jim
>
>
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