Ok, last one, I swear.  ;)

You mentioned doing this en mass.  Just to be clear, wild cards will work
with chmod and chown.  So:

chmod a+rw *

will set every file in the current directory to be world readable and
writable (if you execute it as root).

--jim


On Wed, 29 May 2002, db wrote:

> Working with Redhat 5.2 & Fvfm, I have a ton of files in a folder that I
> copied (as root) from a CD.
>
> I need to reset the rw and perhaps ownership attributes en mass so that the
> files can be written to and worked with by other users.
>
> I know this is basic but could anyone clue this newbie in?
>
>
>

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