Question

I’ve just upgraded my development machine and have moved over a website I was working on. However, the permissions don’t seem to have moved over properly. The dev machine is a Linux machine which runs Apache, where all the folders and sub-folders were set to 755 and all the files and files within all sub folders were set to 644.

Instead of me having to run the commands:

chmod 755 <folder name here>

chmod 644 <file name here>

Is there a quicker way of doing this without having to do each and every file and folder individually?

Answer 1

chmod works recursively:

chmod xxx -R /path/

More info: http://linux.die.net/man/1/chmod