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[ILUG] CHMOD

[ILUG] CHMOD

John Allen john.allen at dublinux.net
Mon Jan 12 12:05:42 GMT 2009


Lisa Muir wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Miguel Angel Vilela <miguev at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> chmod 777 folder
>>     
>
> chmod -R 777 folder
> if you want to also grant world access to the existing contents of the
> folder ;-)
>   
or the preferable
chmod -R ugo+rwX folder

this will NOT set the executable bit on all files, only ones where there 
is an executable bit set already, or it is a directory.



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