Script to change permission.

[ben_43]

As a user how do i change all the files and directories under my home directory to 644 and 755 respectively with one command?

Thanks
Ben.

[Bill McNAMARA_1 · Accepted solution]

with the -R option of chmod.

Later,
Bill

[Pete Randall]

Or use find (i.e. find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;)

Pete

[Pete Randall]

and "find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;"

Pete

[ben_43]

Thanks.
Ben

[Pete Randall]

Or find with xargs (i.e. find . -type f -print | xargs chmod 644) to avoid spawning a separate process for each.

Pete

[Rory R Hammond]

If you wanted to find all of the 644 files and change them to 755 you could
find /home/ben -perm -644 -exec chmod 755 {} \;

Using find this way would avoid changing permission on thing in your path that you might not want people to see
like /home/ben/sercret that had permission of 600.

All of the other examples didn't seem to address this issues

rory