[nmglug] chmod question

[Anthony Martinez]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:38:30PM -0600, Andres Paglayan 
carved this out of pure phosphors:
> I have a big tree of directories generated by a php script, it goes from 
> a/ to z/ and it has a/ to z/ within each one.
> I backuped and restore it (after changing the OS from Fedora to Debian)
> I want to change the permissions only in the directories without 
> affecting those of the files.
> Is there any way to do that recursively on the dirs but skiping the files?
> thanks,
> Andres
> 

There's a few ways to do this, but i'd use find | xargs like this:

find /path/to/stuff/ -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755

changing path to stuff, and the mode.

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