Thread: Command line permissions

i wondering if there command let me change permissions on every file , directory located within directory. example if wanted change permissions 777 every file , directory in .thunderbird directory , contains. don't want have change permissions on 50 items separately.

code:

opensage@opensageue:~/permtest01$ chmod 775 subdir01  opensage@opensageue:~/permtest01$ ls -l  total 8  drwxrwxr-x 2 opensage opensage 4096 2011-11-28 16:38 subdir01  drwxr-xr-x 2 opensage opensage 4096 2011-11-28 16:39 subdir02  opensage@opensageue:~/permtest01$ ls -l subdir01  total 0  -rw-r--r-- 1 opensage opensage 0 2011-11-28 16:30 file01  -rw-r--r-- 1 opensage opensage 0 2011-11-28 16:30 file02  -rw-r--r-- 1 opensage opensage 0 2011-11-28 16:30 file03  -rw-r--r-- 1 opensage opensage 0 2011-11-28 16:30 file04

in above code command change of permissions contained in subdir01 .... sure there must code that, don't know is.

posted opensage

...for example if wanted change permissions 777 every file , directory in .thunderbird directory , contains.

terminal >

code:

find `pwd` .thunderbird/ -type f -exec chmod 777 {} \;

or

code:

find .thunderbird/ -type f -exec chmod 777 {} \;

or

code:

chmod 777 .thunderbird/* -r

or
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