help in chmod

[diogodh]

Hi! I have been trying to give file permissions to all the files in a folder and subfolder (ex, to the whole /home/ directory). I have been trying to use chmod 777 /home/*.* or /home/* but it just gives permissions to the files in that directory and not in the subdirectories.
The only solution was to chmod 777 /home/*/*/*... but this doens't seem to be very well :/

Thanks in advance

[AlexK]

Firstly, look through the man page for chmod for more options, i.e. do a man chmod

Now, for changing permissions for directories, you must use the "recursive flag" to change permissions for all folders and files in whatever folder, i.e. do this:

chmod 777 -R /home