UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi everyone,

I am using mac os x 10.6, and I just copied over a project from a machine with 10.5... And I noticed my ls color is very funky in this directory... I found that my permissions are all messed up, and am wondering if there is a way to recursively fix permissions?

This is how they look (i've never seen "@" before in permissions! What does that mean??)
This is how they should look...
So, this project has many subdirectories, so I just would like to go through and convert all directories to drwxrwxr-x, and all non directory files to -rw-rw-r--

Is there an easy way to do this? I couldn't find a recursive flag for chmod, nor do I know how to grab all directories as one *, and then separately grab non-directories as one *...

Thank you very much.

-patrick

Code:

find /path -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
find /path -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;

@ probably refers to an acl. See man chacl.

Hello patrick, Jim.

The @ means that the files have extended attributes.

From the OSX man page for ls:
You can view (or delete) these attributes using the xattr command, but some of them are used by Spotlight and can be quite useful.

thank you very much! It works perfectly..

That "{}" is pure magic!

-patrick