Hi, On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:53, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> 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. You can use chmod +X, it will work if your files are already not executable. +X will keep the executable bit for the ones that already executable (directories) but not set it for who doesn't have it. You can use something like: chmod -R a+rX,u+w,go-w . Of course, if your files have the executable bit set and you want to remove it, it won't work for you, in that case you should use the find | xargs chmod solution that was posted already. HTH, Filipe