How can i chmod all the contents of a directory

Diss · 14 Oct 2006 at 07:30

I have looked on various websites for this but couldn't see anything specific (or that i understood)

If i have a dir called /home/diss/test and want to chmod to 775 all the files in the /test dir how do i do this?

I tried this:
chmod -v 775 test
but it only changed the permissions of the actual folder

thanks

Diss

riddlermarc · 14 Oct 2006 at 07:41

chmod -v 755 * whilst inside yout test dir should be your winner

Dj_Jestar · 14 Oct 2006 at 09:19

chmod -R 755 /home/diss/test

Diss · 14 Oct 2006 at 10:55

thanks guys
much appreciated

i remember now seeing something about -R but referring to recursivley or something - didn't know what that meant

Diss

Una · 14 Oct 2006 at 11:56

Recursion is when you define something in terms of its self.

I.e an example to sum everything in a list.
sumL :: [Int] -> Int
sumL (x:xs) = x + sumL xs

So in this case it means traverse down the directory tree and apply the same function to each directory. Pretty useful thing to know.

riddlermarc · 14 Oct 2006 at 14:10

Be aware that using the -R switch will also apply the chmod command to everything in all subdirectories beneath /home/diss/test too

Diss · 14 Oct 2006 at 17:15

riddlermarc said:
Be aware that using the -R switch will also apply the chmod command to everything in all subdirectories beneath /home/diss/test too

ahhhh i wondered about that - thanks

Diss