try doing the 2 commands in the opposite order, setting everything to 664, & then set the directories to 775, ie:
chmod -R 664* chmod -R 775 *. Regards, Bernie. On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Kyle <k...@attitia.com> wrote: > I should clarify; > > But then if I do a chmod -R 664 *.jpg (and > > repeat for all other extensions), for some reason the chmod doesn't work. > > it works in the directory I'm presently in, but doesn't recurse. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Kind Regards > Kyle > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html