{"id":2225,"date":"2023-01-20T10:53:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T10:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2023-10-04T19:39:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T19:39:59","slug":"change-file-permissions-recursively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/change-file-permissions-recursively\/","title":{"rendered":"Chmod: Change File Permissions Recursively"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-1\" data-shcb-language-name=\"PHP\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"php\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-php\">How <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">do<\/span> you recursively adjust file <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">and<\/span> directory permissions?\n\n$ find . -type f -exec chmod <span class=\"hljs-number\">644<\/span> {} \\;\n$ find . -type d -exec chmod <span class=\"hljs-number\">755<\/span> {} \\;\n$ chmod <span class=\"hljs-number\">707<\/span> images\n$ chmod <span class=\"hljs-number\">707<\/span> images\/stories\n$ chown -R daemon:daemon cache\n$ chown -R apache:apache cache\n\nSetting permission to <span class=\"hljs-number\">0755<\/span> recursive :\n$chmod -R <span class=\"hljs-number\">0755<\/span> directory_NameHere\n\nTo find all files in \/home\/user\/demo directory\n$ find \/home\/user\/demo -type f -<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">print<\/span>\n\nTo find all files in \/home\/user\/demo directory with permission <span class=\"hljs-number\">777<\/span>, enter:\n$ find \/home\/user\/demo -type f -perm <span class=\"hljs-number\">777<\/span> -<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">print<\/span>\n\nApply <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">new<\/span> permission using the -exec option <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">as<\/span> follows:\n$ find \/home\/user\/demo -type f -perm <span class=\"hljs-number\">777<\/span> -<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">print<\/span> -exec chmod <span class=\"hljs-number\">755<\/span> {} \\;\n\nTo select directories <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">and<\/span> subdirectories <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">use<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title\">the<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title\">following<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title\">syntax<\/span>:\n$ <span class=\"hljs-title\">find<\/span> \/<span class=\"hljs-title\">var<\/span>\/<span class=\"hljs-title\">www<\/span>\/<span class=\"hljs-title\">html<\/span> -<span class=\"hljs-title\">type<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title\">d<\/span> -<span class=\"hljs-title\">perm<\/span> 777 -<span class=\"hljs-title\">print<\/span> -<span class=\"hljs-title\">exec<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title\">chmod<\/span> 755 {} \\;<\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-1\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">PHP<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">php<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[454],"tags":[468],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shell-script","tag-recursively"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40772,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions\/40772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}