Bill Campbell wrote: > 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 > Thanks. Worked like a charm....