The man page for chmod doesn't list a way to recursively change permissions on directories only, without affecting the files themselves.
Let's say that I wanted to change the permissions on the current directory and all subdirectories. I know I can write a bash script that would do this using find . -type d and parsing through the results, but there are over 100 Linux servers where I work and I don't want to have to add the script to each one of them. Is there any more elegant way that this can be done? Would the following work?
I am trying to locate a file or files with specific data in them. Problem is the file(s) could reside in any one of many directories.
My question is. Is there a way of recursively greping directories for the file(s) with the data I am looking for.
I have tried -
1.
$HOME> grep 47518 | ls... (8 Replies)
Hi,
OS - Unix, linux (all unix flavors)
My requirement. To check directory/file exists and then change the permission of the directories/files.
Iam trying to start with directory and here is my code in the file totalchange.sh (insideragain - is a directory, test1.txt - is a file under the... (2 Replies)
Hi folk,
Could you please give me command to give the rwx permissions to the parent and its sub directories ?
Is it possible to fire one command or Script for giving permission to both the parent and its sub directories.
I meant to say something like in recurcive.
I am using AIX 5.2
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Hi everyone,
Maybe this is simple question for many of you, but I get confused.:confused:
How to archive a parent directory which contains some subdirectories and some files?
I have searched this forum, there are some commands like tar,etc, I tried but can not be implemented in my system.... (6 Replies)
find -type d -name "TC_*" | sort
That's what I have so far... it finds the appropriate directories and then sorts them. But, when it comes to nested subdirectories, it only sorts relative to the first subdirectory. I want it to sort based on the directory at the end of the path. Does anyone know... (3 Replies)
Hello,
i want just to change Rights for a few direcories anf files, but some directories must be exclude.
How can i put the command chmod as
chmod -R 755 * exclude toto tata
where toto and tata are directories
Could you help me for that or must I use the find command
Thanks (2 Replies)
hi;
i need a script which will go to all directories and subdirectories and print the filenames as follow;
here i m printing only files listing in current directory
reason i m doing this is coz i want to perform some operations according to filename achieved so cant use find command;... (4 Replies)
I am looking for a small script to crawl through several directories and change a couple of files in each directory to read write status.
Anyone have any ideas ? (5 Replies)
So I have extremely limited experience with shell scripting and I was hoping someone could point out a few commands I need to use in order to pull this off with a shell script like BASH or whatnot (this is on OS X).
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Discussion started by: flyawaymike
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
chmod
CHMOD(1) General Commands Manual CHMOD(1)NAME
chmod - change access mode for files
SYNOPSIS
chmod [-R] mode file ...
OPTIONS -R Change hierarchies recursively
EXAMPLES
chmod 755 file # Owner: rwx Group: r-x Others: r-x
chmod +x file1 file2
# Make file1 and file2 executable
chmod a-w file # Make file read only
chmod u+s file # Turn on SETUID for file
chmod -R o+w dir # Allow writing for all files in dir
DESCRIPTION
The given mode is applied to each file in the file list. If the -R flag is present, the files in a directory will be changed as well. The
mode can be either absolute or symbolic. Absolute modes are given as an octal number that represents the new file mode. The mode bits are
defined as follows:
4000 Set effective user id on execution to file's owner id
2000 Set effective group id on execution to file's group id
0400 file is readable by the owner of the file
0200 writeable by owner
0100 executable by owner
0070 same as above, for other users in the same group
0007 same as above, for all other users
Symbolic modes modify the current file mode in a specified way. The form is:
[who] op permissions { op permissions ...} {, [who] op ... }
The possibilities for who are u, g, o, and a, standing for user, group, other and all, respectively. If who is omitted, a is assumed, but
the current umask is used. The op can be +, -, or =; + turns on the given permissions, - turns them off; = sets the permissions exclu-
sively for the given who. For example g=x sets the group permissions to --x.
The possible permissions are r, w, x; which stand for read, write, and execute; s turns on the set effective user/group id bits. s only
makes sense with u and g; o+s is harmless.
SEE ALSO ls(1), chmod(2).
CHMOD(1)