How to change the permissions of files in a directory recursively

[Jim]

On 04/24/2017 07:48 PM, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-04-24 at 16:53 -0500, Jim wrote:
>> On 04/24/2017 02:10 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
>>>
>>> At Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:16:13 -0500 "Ubuntu user technical
>>> support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.c
>>> om> 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.
>>> Probably suggesting the (obvious/simpleminded) 'chmod -R 766
>>> /some/dir'.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So if I have /var/www/html/foo/  I want foo to remain at 755 and
>>>> files
>>>> in foo to change to 766.
>>> find /var/www/html/foo/ -type f | xargs chmod 766
>>>
>>> (you might need to use sudo on the xargs command and/or the find
>>> command,
>>> depending on what user your current shell is running under and what
>>> the
>>> current permissions are.)
>>>
>>> Alternitively (for completeness):
>>>
>>> chmod -R 766 /var/www/html/foo
>>> find /var/www/html/foo/ -type d | xargs chmod 755
>>>
>> Robert, thanks for the reply. Earlier it was suggested that I add
>> a  *
>> after foo/ and that seems to have worked for me.
>
> For a deep directory you can do:
>
> find <dir> -type f -perm 766
>
> which recursively finds all the regular files and changes their mode in
> the directory tree.
>
> Smoot
>

Another way to do it to save for future use.

Thanks,  Jim