How to change the permissions of files in a directory recursively

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Mon, 2017-04-24 at 22:38 -0400, Rashkae wrote:
> On 17-04-24 08:48 PM, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> 
> Umm, what?  -perm option to find searches for permissions, it
> doesn't 
> change anything.

You are correct.  Should be something like:

find <dir> -type f -exec chmod 766 {} \;

or

find <dir> -type f -print | xargs chmod 766


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