How to Change Permissions Main Directory down to the Last Directory

**nujinini** · 05-22-2012

Hello guys!

I was reorganizing my files and have encountered this problem.

I change the persmission of a directory using

Code:

$ sudo chmod o+rwx FILE

and it changes only to find out that the files inside have also changed to I have to do this again..

Code:

sudo chmod o+rwx FILES_INSIDE

And so on and so forth. It would take me ages to finish doing this to all my files.

Can someone kindly give me a command that I can execute to recursively change my files and all sub files dwon the line to +rwx please?

Thank you!

**mp035** · 05-22-2012

Use the recursive switch (its a CAPITAL -R)

Code:

sudo chmod -R o+rwx FILE

**nujinini** · 05-22-2012

Thank you mp035! DONE!

I was trying to do it this way actually

Code:

$ sudo chmod o+rwx -r FILE

And now I knwo where I got it wrong!

Thank you again!

regards,

nujinini

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