chmod

[msen]

how do I change permission for dir/sub dir?

 

[PHV]

The reply is in the topic, so I'm surely missing something ...
man chmod

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[msen]

what I meant - I did chmod 777 * for all directories. It worked. There are sub dirs, instead of going into every directories and do chmod, is there a command that I could use that take care of the permissions.

 

[PHV]

Have you read the man page ?
Most chmod implementations have the -R option.
Otherwise, man find

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[Chacalinc]

I guess that msen is talking about the [red]-R[/red] parameter in the [tt]chmod[/tt] command.

chmod -R 777 *

-R : recurse subdirs

as PHV stated: man chmod

cheers.

 

[KenCunningham]

But also see Thread60-1060438 for a cautionary tale about what happens 'when chmod goes bad'!!

 

[hfaix]

remember:

chmod -R 777 *

will do all the files as well as the directories.

one more thing, 777 is bad

 

[btinder]

Usually, there's no issue when making a text file executable, but 777 is just asking for problems. For what purpose do you need to open up the directories?

 

[hfaix]

Instead of 777ing a directory, you should consider proper useage of groups.