Changing flags only for directoires

ivanatora · 10-14-2003, 03:40 AM

I want to chmod all direcotries on one dir, but not files. How can be done that?
I copy tar.gzs from my FAT32 partition. Thy are all chmodded to 777. I want to remove the 'x' flag, but when I do $ chmod a-x * it changes the directories flags too.. that makes them unbrowsable.

hw-tph · 10-14-2003, 04:10 AM

Do something like chmod a-x *.tgz if you want all tgz files for be stripped of the exec bit.

hw

ivanatora · 10-14-2003, 04:49 AM

What about if I had different situation? I want to understand the way to chmod only directories

yapp · 10-14-2003, 05:28 AM

Code:

find . -type d -exec chmod +x {} \;

, or "find . type d | xargs chmod +d" if I'm not mistaken.