On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:39 +1000, Simon Ives wrote: > I'm running Ubuntu Server 8.04 and I need to change the permissions for > a large quantity of files and directories. > > I've got a directory named 'music' that I share with the home network. > This includes other Linux boxes that access this directory via nfs and > some Windows XP boxes accessing it via samba. I've just transferred > around 80gb of music files and directories from a Windows drive and I > need a command to alter the permissions of all the files as read/write > for everyone.
chmod -R > > Further, is there a way that I can set all newly created directories and > files within this particular directory to inherit the file permissions > of the parent directory? you can change the system umask, or perhaps s[u,g]id bits if your after users/groups. kk > > Thanks. > > Simon Ives. > > -- Karl Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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