On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:16 +0930, Karl Goetz wrote: > 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
chmod -R does the job, thanks. On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:19 +1000, ... wrote: > The simplest way is to load up a terminal window and type (where > 'music_directory' is replaced with the path where the music is. > # cd music_directory > # sudo chmod -R a+rw This doesn't quite work as chmod needs a target. From the parent directory of the music directory the following needed to be typed: sudo chmod -R a+rw music Thanks for the assistance. Simon Ives. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
