Want To Confirm Chmod All Directories

[gaspower]

Hello,

I just want to confirm that -> find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; will chmod all directories current and lower will now be 755.

Say directory scheme is,

Home/Dir1/Dir2/Dir3/Dir4/Dir5, and I am in dircectory DIR3. If I run the statement above in Dir3, it should mean all directories DIR3/DIR4/DIR5 are all now 755 and DIR1 and DIR2 stay as before.

Thanks JR

[Cabhan]

If you just run:

find . -type d

It will show you everything that will be matched when you actually run the -exec command.

[gaspower]

Hello,

Thank you for the reply. But just want to confirm the directories it is going to chmod.

JR

[atreyu]

What Cabhan is telling you is that everything returned by find . -type d will have performed on them whatever command you pass with the -exec arg in find . -type d -exec command {} \;

in short, yes.