How to chmod -R on directories only?

jdupre · 11-12-2004, 06:50 PM

Is it possible to chmod a directory and all of the directories in that directory without affecting the mode of the files in those directories???

From what I can tell,

#chmod -R 777 /some/directory

changes the permissions on all of the directories AND the files. I only want to change the permissions on the directories themselves.

- Joe

Demonbane · 11-12-2004, 06:58 PM

here's one way of doing it:

Code:

for foo in $(find /some/directory -type d);do chmod 777 $foo;done

jdupre · 11-12-2004, 07:42 PM

Wow, that is great. That can be useful for lots of things! Thank you for enlightening me.

- joe

Tinkster · 11-13-2004, 12:45 AM

find /some/directory -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;

No loops - lazy-mods version ;)

Cheers,
Tink