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

[Dave Gray]

On 1/11/06, William <wlist-clue at kimballstuff.com> 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?

Another (less efficient, but more flexible) way would be:
find /some/directory/path -type d -exec chmod a+x {} \;

Cheers,
Dave
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