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Old 06-29-2009
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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chmod does that.

You need to define 'set of files' However if all of the files are in a single directory
Code:
chmod 554 /directory/*
Warning this will also change protections on sub-directories of /directory - just the directory files, not what is in those directories.