[ILUG] CHMOD

[Kae Verens]

John Allen wrote:
> Richard Ryan wrote:

>> However, ' chmod 777 */ ' gives 777 perms to directories only...
>>   
> Yes, but not because of chmod, but due to shell expansion.

still a handy trick. works recursively as well:
chmod 777 */ -R

unfortunately, it's not so flexible that you could do something like:
chmod 666 * -R && chmod 777 */ -R

the above would fail to recurse because of removing the executable bit from the root directory permissions

kae