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combining find with chmod, but doesn't work...

Hi all,

I found a thread on this forum telling me how to chmod directories separately from files.

Quote:

find [YOURDIR] -type d | chmod 755 [files] \;

find [YOURDIR] -type f | chmod 644 [files] \;

In my case I want all subdirectories of the dir I'm in, to be 766, and all files must be 040 (long story why they need to be like this ;) ).

I issued this command:

Code:

find ./ -type f | chmod -R 040 *

but instead of chmod'ing only the files, it alters everything; directories too.

What am I doing wrong? could it be the -R parameter of chmod?

best regards,
Marvelade

Since find will march down the dir structure and give you all files (type f), there's no need for the recursive option to chmod.

Code:

find . -type f -exec chmod 040 {} \;