> So, the primary question is, is there an easy way to set the permission on > directories, only directories, and all sub-directories? A related question > is how to use ls to list only directories.
Use find; eg: % find /starting/from/here -type d -print This prints all directories and subdirectories of /starting/from/here, including /starting/from/here. To actually do something, write a little script and/or use the exec flag: % cat > something #!/bin/bash chmod 755 $1 <CTRL>-d % chmod 755 something % find /start/here/now -type d -exec ./something {} \; equivalently: % find /start/here/now -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; See the man page for find for details. > And if anyone's in a 'splaining mood, here's another one: how do > you set all files so that the group permissions match the user > permissions? (If you have three files who's permissions are, for > example, 700, 600, 500, and you want them to be 770, 660, 550 > respectively.) Look at the info page for chmod: % info chmod You actually want to go to File permissions->Symbolic Models->Copying Permissions, which has the following: Copying Existing Permissions ---------------------------- You can base a file's permissions on its existing permissions. To do this, instead of using `r', `w', or `x' after the operator, you use the letter `u', `g', or `o'. For example, the mode o+g adds the permissions for users who are in a file's group to the permissions that other users have for the file. Thus, if the file started out as mode 664 (`rw-rw-r--'), the above mode would change it to mode 666 (`rw-rw-rw-'). If the file had started out as mode 741 (`rwxr----x'), the above mode would change it to mode 745 (`rwxr--r-x'). The `-' and `=' operations work analogously. Although I should note that this doesn't work for me when setting other permissions, just group permissions--I can't get it to set write permissions for other. Fortunately, it seems to work for what you want to do. Andrew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]