set the permissions on all the files and folders within a directory (CentOS 7.0 )

Muhammad Zaman

11/3/23, 1:32 PM

I kind of new to Linux/Centos world, is there any way to set the permissions on all the files and folders within a directory. I know chmod 777 will set permissions on the directory, but if it already has contents, I need to know how to set that too. In windows, you propagate the permission down, must be a way to do that in Linux. Thanks.

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jabbson

11/3/23, 1:37 PM

Please see the -R, --recursive flag

Link to the documentation

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       -R, --recursive
              change files and directories recursively

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Ginnungagap

11/3/23, 9:58 PM

Mandatory comment that `chmod 777` is garbage and should never be performed, much less so with `--recursive` and even less so when you don't know `--recursive` without asking on StackOverflow.

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