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Phil
Phil

Reputation: 13

SSH Command to change permission of subfolder

I currently use the following two commands:

find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

I am under the impression that one changes all directories and subdirectories to 755 and the other changes all files and files in subfolders to 644

I would like to pick and choose the subdirectories.

For example:

find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {/sudirectoryOfCurrentDirectory} \;

How do I pick a subdirectory and subdirectories in that subdirectory? How do I pick a subdirectory and all files in that subdirectory and it's subdirectories?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1439

Answers (3)

FZE
FZE

Reputation: 1627

I'm not sure if I understand you correctly but when I look other answers they looks so complex according to your need.

You requested, you want to change given directory's subdirectories ? Isn't it ?

It basically means.

find ./yoursubdirectory -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

Upvotes: 1

assefamaru
assefamaru

Reputation: 2789

You can do the following:

To pick a subdirectory, and all directories in that subdirectory, recursively:

chmod <permission> `find path/to/subdirectory -type d`

To pick a subdirectory, and all files in that subdirectory, recursively:

chmod <permission> `find path/to/subdirectory -type f`

Example:

chmod 755 `find name_of_subdir -type d`    # all directories in subdir
chmod 755 `find name_of_subdir -type f`    # all files in subdir

Upvotes: 0

Jason Noble
Jason Noble

Reputation: 3766

The following would list every directory and ask if you want to chmod 755 it. Answer y to chmod it.

find . -type d | xargs -p -n 1 chmod 755

You could use grep to include patterns:

find . -type d | grep subdirectoryOfCurrentDirectory | xargs chmod 755

Or you could use grep to exclude patterns:

find . -type d | grep -v subdirectoryOfCurrentDirectory | xargs chmod 755

Upvotes: 1

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