chmod directories only

vrillusions · 05-21-2003, 02:17 PM

I have a lot of directories that I want to chmod, but only the directories, not the files. Alot of them are nested, so I can't just chmod the directory and then set the files back to what they were before.

I tried using ls -Rd * to see if that would list all the direcotories (thinking I could pipe it to chmod command) and it only lists the directories in the current directory, it doesn't recurse through them, even though I specify the R tag.

Any other ideas? Thanks. This is on Mandrake 9.1

Proud · 05-21-2003, 02:25 PM

Maybe write a small shell script instead of that one line piped command?

whansard · 05-21-2003, 02:28 PM

find . -type d -exec chmod 000 {} \;

vrillusions · 05-21-2003, 08:58 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by whansard
find . -type d -exec chmod 000 {} \;

Thanks, that worked perfectly.

whansard · 05-21-2003, 09:02 PM

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