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blendmaster
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 Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 1:31 am Post subject: changing only folder file permissions |
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on my familys computer, i was checking through peoples home directories.for some reason i don't recall, i did a "chmod 755 -R *" at the base home directory of everyone. then, i noticed everything was green (meaning executable) in the output of ls so i did a "chmod 644 -R *" instead. but now, as the folders don't have an executable bit, they won't run properly in the graphical file manager. is there any way to add the executable bit to just folders and do it recursively? "chmod 755 -R */" won't work.
also, offtopic, but can anyone send me the mspaint.exe from their windows install? my 11 year old sister wants it or somthing like it and i have yet to find a native paint clone.
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Kirigoe
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 6:41 am Post subject: |
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you should be able to do something like this for your directories:
| Code: | | find . -type d |xargs chmod 755 |
this will use "find" to find all directories and pipe the result to xargs to chmod them. please note that the dot after find is the directory to start in and of course the dot means "current directory". also please be careful, i'm not 100% this will work.
you can download a zipped package with mspaint.exe (from my windows 2000 install) here: http://downshift.org/temp/mspaint.zip
hope it helps!
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ronmon
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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Reading man pages isn't a lot of fun, but it can be enlightening. From 'man chmod':
| Quote: | | execute only if the file is a directory or already has execute permission for some user (X) |
Note the upper case 'X'. Something like this will do it.
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blendmaster
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ronmon: the +X was the key. thanks!
Kirgoe: as i tried ronomon's idea first I didn't try yours. with your paint from windows, it doesn't seem to work. wine complains about some missing library. don't worry about it though.
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Sounds like a job for the Midnight Commander! <--lots o pomp
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