Question

Can someone please give me a recursive command that will go through a directory and make all normal files permission 644 and all sub directories 755?

I am really getting tired of doing this manually every time I have to install something on my host. I don’t know enough BASH (Shell?) command to do this.

Answer 1

First line changes file permissions, and the second changes directory permissions in the active directory and its subdirectories.

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644 find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755