Comments on: Linux / UNIX: Change File Permissions Recursively ( conditional )

By: Outsourcing Nepal

Outsourcing Nepal — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:38:59 +0000

Still wondering warys to accomplish the task in cuteftp

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:59:55 +0000

Do not do what I did. In a brief moment of aloofness, I happened to mistake “./” with “/.”

The “./” means this directory while the latter “/.” means root… where all the apps are installed…

By: Poum

Poum — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:14:53 +0000

Thank you, that’s cool.

By: Birkopf

Birkopf — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:03:24 +0000

If you use gnome you can also do graphical way in nautilus. Do as follow:

1) open gconf (for example in terminal or Alt+F2)
2) in gconf-editor under /apps/nautilus/preferences select “show_advanced_permissions”
3) close, open nautilus, right click on folder or file, select permissions and enjoy… :)

By: sha

sha — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:14:11 +0000

I thank you so much for highlighting this wonderful command.

By: birkopf

birkopf — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:30:01 +0000

Excellent. Finally after weeks of searching this worked like a charm. Using the opportunity:
- Is there a way to search (for example) all files with permission 700 and select all that are NOT 700 ? I mean inverse selection.

By: Zilverdistel

Zilverdistel — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:31:14 +0000

Thanks! I used it this way, after changing uid for a user:
find -gid 1000 -exec chown -h :username {} \;

By: Kiwi Chris

Kiwi Chris — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:52:37 +0000

Hi this was excellent I used what you had here to change my permissions
I changed it a little to work the way I wanted, which was to change all in the path to permissions I wanted, also works for ownership.

Use this method for Chown:

find . /home/admin/data/ -type d -exec chown admin.admin {} \;
find . /home/admin/data/ -type f -exec chown admin.admin {} \;

Public_html

find . /home/admin/public_html/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find . /home/admin/public_html/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

By: jay

jay — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:31:06 +0000

Thanks for this amazing commands…!

By: Info Gaptek

Info Gaptek — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:07:33 +0000

I found this page by googling.
Thanks for your help!

By: Thankful guy

Thankful guy — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:21:08 +0000

Thanks a lot for the tutorial. Now I can change the permission of a folder and its subfolders without affecting files inside. i.e.:

$ find folder_name -type d -exec chmod 775 ‘{}’ \;