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David
David

Reputation: 4508

Changing group permissions for multiple folders and files in ubuntu

I have main folder in which I have multiple folders and files. Main folder has owner X and group permission Y. Inside it all folders and files have owner X and group permission x. But I want all of them to have group permission Y also like the main folder. What's the shortest way to make it happen?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2903

Answers (3)

UpTheCreek
UpTheCreek

Reputation: 32391

If you want to change the group, without changing the owner, you can use

chgrp -R GROUP FILE

Upvotes: 1

David
David

Reputation: 4508

That's what I needed to solve the problem:

sudo chown -R username:group directory

Upvotes: 2

Flavio Garcia
Flavio Garcia

Reputation: 1671

Just use the -R option that will apply your permissions recursively(i.e. file and folders under the parent folders). It goes like this:

chmod -R <permissions> /myfolder

Upvotes: 0

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