Read/write permission to ALL users on a directory and everything in it
 

I have searched but the threads give read/write permissions only to a single folder.

I want to chmod an entire directory with everything in it.

I was using chmod -R a+rw /directory

Are you getting an error? That should be correct, I believe. Are you using the complete directory path (i.e. /home/user/stuff instead of /stuff)?

You may want to use the following instead. The capital 'X' means set the executable bit if it is a directory (or a file that already has the executable bit set):

Cool thanks, it's working fine now. Don't know why it wasn't before, suppose it's a mistake I made somewhere :)