chmod directory help

ycamera2mank · 10-03-2005, 10:29 PM

This might be kind of a newb question for chmod, but how do you chmod a whole directory?

I am running apache 2 on my fedora core 3 machine, and i don't want folders like "images/" to be seen. Yet this isn't the only one I don't want to be viewed. I am aware of the

Code:

chmod 711 directory

, but it only does that specific directory, it doesn't do the folders in that directory. So is there anyway I can chmod 711 a whole directory? And if I make a new folder, that will also be the 711 permission?

If someone could help me out, that would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

-Asim

scuzzman · 10-03-2005, 10:45 PM

Code:

chmod -R

Code:

man chmod

ycamera2mank · 10-03-2005, 10:50 PM

actually, I was looking for something that wouldn't affect the actual files, just the folders, w/ chmod -R, all the files (even the images) are non executable. Is there an option to just do folders? or will I have to do it the hard way?

scuzzman · 10-03-2005, 11:43 PM

OK - give this a shot (will probably need edited, but this is a start):

Code:

for dir in `find /path/to/directory -type d -name *`; do chmod 711 $dir; done