chown for all folders (solved)

otacon · 2009-02-12 02:30:12

how do I chown for all the folders under the one folder I am changing permissions?

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thanks love you guys

Last edited by otacon (2009-02-12 02:50:05)

perbh · 2009-02-12 02:35:40

man chown

userlander · 2009-02-12 02:45:50

here's another hint: chown --help |grep recursive

evr · 2009-02-12 02:45:50

chown -R

fukawi2 · 2009-02-12 02:50:36

find /directory/to/search -type d -exec chown user:group {} \;

Works for chmod too

find /directory/to/search -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

And files:

find /directory/to/search -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Last edited by fukawi2 (2009-02-12 02:51:24)

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