[CLUG] Selective, recursive chmod

[Paul J Collins]

>>>>> "ab" == adam beecher <adam at iewebs.com> writes:

    ab> Say I have a web directory, and I want to recursively chmod
    ab> all the directories 755 and all the files 644, how would I go
    ab> about that then then?

find . -xtype d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find . -xtype f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

I've used -xtype so that symbolic links won't be followed.

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