Month: December 2017

Use the command below to recursively change permissions only on files:

~$ find /<path> -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

While use the following command to recursively change permissions only on directories:

~$ find /<path> -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

where:
– /<path> is the path containing the interested files or directories.
– 644 assigns permissions of “read/write” on the owner, while “read” on the group and others.
– 755 assigns permissions of “read/write/execute” on the owner, while “read/execute” on the group and others.

Use the following command to recursively change permissions only on specific file type (e.g, all php files in the main path and related sub-directories):

~$ find . -name "*.php" -exec chmod +x {} \;

The command above searches all php files and excute the chmod command to apply the execution permission (+x).

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