I am trying to search all directories with name 'bin' and change the permission of files under all directories which were successfully found. I tried with the below command:
find -type d -name bin -exec chmod 777 {} \;
But this changed the permission of bin directory. It did not change the permission of the files underlying bin. Please help.
Recursively changing the permission with -R as shown in the solution below is the key. Not the solution provided in the similar question.
Your approach was slightly unsuccessful.
Since your bin directory contains another files and directories, you've to change their permission recursively.
$ find -type d -name bin -exec chmod -R 777 {} \;
I Hope, this is what you've expected in return.
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I am working with digital ocean and WordPress. I have uploaded my theme and my file permissions are all wrong. I know how to set the file permissions individually using ssh but I'm wondering if I can do multiple at once rather than doing each individually. I want to set all folders inside my theme to 755 and all files to 644 (correct me if this is wrong)
Here's what I have done so far; I navigated to my theme folder using ssh then used to following command to set file permissions;
chmod 644 file.php
chmod 755 folder
chmod -R 755 will set these permissions to all files and subfolders in the tree. To set the directories to 755 and either leave the files alone or set them to 644. For this, you can use the find command. For example:
To change all the directories to 755 (drwxr-xr-x):
find /opt/lampp/htdocs -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
To change all the files to 644 (-rw-r--r--):
find /opt/lampp/htdocs -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
Please try below command for directory
find /var/www/html/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
Below command is for files permission
find /var/www/html/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
If folder folder is read/write/execute accessible to me, then it should become read/write/execute to everyone.
Calling chmod -R 777 ./folder does not suit, because it makes all files executable, even those that were not executable before.
Is there an easy way?
You could do it with UNIX find combined with the exec flag to run a chmod command on every file that matches a filter, and filter on the executable bit.
e.g.
first find the non executable files recursively and change them to all RW
find ./folder -not -executable -exec chmod a=rw {} \;
then find all the executable ones recursively and change them to all RWX
find ./folder -executable -exec chmod a=rwx {} \;
You might want to add add the files in the folder to a user group like everyone or users depending on your distro.
chown -R <youruser>:everyone ./folder
You can check what available user groups you have with groups command.
I'm new to Ubuntu. Giving permission to folder using the following command in Terminal.
chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/
This command is working for html folder only. But, I have many sub folders in html folder.
How can i give 777 permissions to all the sub folders at a time?
I think you really want to do is set the directories to 755 and either leave the files alone or set them to 777. For this, you can use the find command. For example:
To change all the directories to 755 (-rwxr-xr-x):
find /var/www/html/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
To change all the files to 777 :
find /var/www/html/ -type f -exec chmod 777 {} \;
Hope this helps you.
This is a 2 part question.
Recently my site was hacked, and I'm guessing the main way whoever it was who did it was some of my original sites might have had iffy permissions on the files/folders.
So, part 1. What are they best permissions for files and folders? From what I've read 644 for files and 755 for folders seem to be the best.
And part 2. In Linux is there any command I can do in the root directory to loop through all the folders and files in my sites and apply permissions to both files and folders? So I don't have to go through each directory manually applying permissions (I have ssh access)
Part2:
Folders
find -type d -exec chmod 755 \{\} \;
Files
find -type f -exec chmod 644 \{\} \;
I am trying to change the permissions of a files present in a directory and subdirectories using the below command and running into below error..can anyone help?
user#machine:/local/mnt/workspace$ find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
chmod: changing permissions of `./halimpl/ncihal/adaptation/NonVolatileStore.cpp': Operation not permitted
you can run the following command:
#chown -R directory_path
But it will change the permissions of directories also.
For only files, you can run.
#find directory_path -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
It also looks like you dont have enough permissions. try
#sudo find directory_path -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
or run the command as root user.
It looks to me like you don't have permission to change NonVolatileStore.cpp.
Are you aware of chmod's -R switch that recursively changes permissions?
if you have the root privilege, try:
sudo find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
It could be that you simply don't own that file. Run an ls -l on it to see full permissions and who the owner is.
It could also be the filesystem is read only.