Chmod Recursively

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Chmod Recursively

I am trying to change a whole Users folder to 770 permissions. When I chmod 770 username only that folder changes permissions and all the folder in it do not. How do you user chmod recursively? Is there another way to do this? The chmod man page did not look like it has the recursive option.

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Mac Mini, Mac OS X (10.4.10), Ubuntu User

Posted on Sep 26, 2007 2:26 PM

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Answer 1

etresoft

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Sep 26, 2007 2:51 PM in response to rottonapple99

chmod -R

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Answer 2

Sep 26, 2007 4:24 PM in response to etresoft

Thanks, I thought that was the right switch but the man page confused me.

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Answer 3

Sep 27, 2007 10:02 AM in response to etresoft

I will mention that the -R switch will also change the access for files, not just folders. I don't have my Mac Mini yet (should get it today), but in general UNIX, you can affect only folders (directories) by doing something like the following in a command shell:

find . -type d -exec chmod 770 {} \;

after doing a "cd" into the appropriate directory

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