Permission problems using SSH

[tristanlee85]

I'm trying to upload a shopping cart program to my website. Because there are so many files, I packed them all in a TAR file (cart.tar). The directory on the server is /public_html/cart/ and the TAR file is located in that directory.

I use

tar -xvf cart.tar

while in the /public_html/cart/ directory and it extracts all the files and folders as it should. Now, the problem is every file has a CHMOD 600 permissions when they need to be 755 (in the /cart/ directory and all other sub-directories).

I've tried

chmod 755 .

and

chmod 755 *.*

, but that only works for the current working directory. In order to get every file to have the 755 permissions, I need to CHMOD 755 every single directory. Is there an attribute of the

tar

command that will extract all files with the 755 permission?

[tristanlee85]

With

tar -xvf cart.tar

it extracts all the directories with the 755 permission, but all the files in EVERY directory is 600. I want every directory and every file 775.

[genesus]

have you tried adding the recursive tag, -r, to chmod?

[TheGreen]

have you tried adding the recursive tag, -r, to chmod?

isnt it -R ????

[Kingedgar]

It is -R.

Also try the -p flag to tar.

tar -xvpf cart.tar

Should preserve permissions if they were set correct.

[tristanlee85]

Thanks for the help. I remember doing it before, but I just couldn't figure out. I ended up extracting the files like before, but when I set the permissions, I tried

chmod -R 755 .

Thanks for the help.