[Gllug] How to chmod selectively without writing a script

[Simon Stewart]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 01:05:31PM +0100, Garry Heaton wrote:
> I want to be able to change the permissions on subdirectories without
> changing the contents of those directories. So far I've tried

<snip>

You could always try using find:

find . -type d -print -exec chmod 644 {} \;

should do what you want. The info pages have some more details about
the various flags and attributes that you can call find with, but this
should get you started.

Cheers,

Simon

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