[CentOS] chmod for directories only

Mon Dec 1 17:56:50 UTC 2008
Bill Campbell <centos at celestial.com>

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I want to change the permissions on directories, recursively to:
>
> drwxr-xr-x
>
> but keep the files within the directory tree as:
>
> -rw-r--r--
>
> But I can't find an option for chmod to only affect directories.  I  
> suppose it won't hurt (in this case) to set the x for the files, but I  
> want some consistancy.

find . -type d | xargs chmod 755

Or if the directories may have whitespace

find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755

Bill
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