[clue-tech] Stupid User Trick -- Need to fix some permissions

Angelo Bertolli angelo at freeshell.org
Wed Jan 11 21:25:30 MST 2006


William wrote:

> In short, I goofed and need to fix some permissions.
>
> I ran a command similar to (in order to set rw permissions as I need 
> on all files under a particular tree):
> chmod -R 664 /some/directory/path/*
>
> Consequently, none of the child directories have any x bits set.  This 
> is apparently a problem because I now cannot create any new files 
> under these directories.  I want ONLY the directories themselves to 
> have the ugo x bits set, not files.  How can this be done most easily?

chmod -R ugo+X
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