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Old 06-04-2007
how to change permissions only to files, not directories....?

Hi,

I am really new to unix, any help is much appreciated.

I need to change permissions of all files under several subdirectories to 700 but keep directories readable (755). Why ? Because I need a FTP user to only list his files and can't read them. But to browse to subfolder, the directories must be readeable.

Something like:

"find . -type f" (list only files) >> then "chmod 700" (chmod the printed files)

or

"ls -l | grep -v "^d" " (list non directories) >> chmod 700

I don't know how to do it. Please any advice ?

Thank you!
# 2  
Old 06-04-2007
Code:
find . -type f -exec chmod 700 {} \;

# 3  
Old 12-13-2008
really find . -type f -exec chmod 700 {} \; good

but if i need to chmod 1 type only of files like *php

and if i need to find all files *php and delete them
# 4  
Old 12-13-2008
Yes i understood your problem ..
ill tell you the simple command to solve your problem
1> To delete only the specified files in a perticular directory and subdirectory use the below command
find <dir_path> -name <search_format> -delete
ex:
find /home/avi/examples/ -name "*.html" -delete
----
to just print all required files
find /home/avi/example/ -name "*.html" -print
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2>To change the mode for each file type which you want
for eachFile in `find /home/avi/examples/ -name "*.sh" -print`
do
chmod 700 $eachFile
done

### ateya i thing all your problems solved... Smilie
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Regards:Avinash... A Real Angry Man
 
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