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Calvinguy · 01-15-2007, 09:28 AM

How do I change filepermission for all .jpg images, folders and subfolders?

I want to change to 0777 for a short period while a script make some changes (some images have different owners) and then back to normal again.

After the script is finished I want all folders to be 0755 and all .jpg images to be 0644.

darksoul · 01-15-2007, 09:33 AM

Code:

find /path/to/dir -name "*.jpg" -or -type d -print|xargs chmod 777

reverse

Code:

find /path/to/dir -name "*.jpg" -print|xargs chmod 0644
find /path/to/dor -type d -print |xargs chmod 0755

Calvinguy · 01-15-2007, 10:20 AM

Thanks,

Never seen it like this before. Can you explain how it's working?

darksoul · 01-15-2007, 10:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Calvinguy

Thanks,

Never seen it like this before. Can you explain how it's working?

I assume you've seen stuff like:

Code:

chmod -R 777 /path/to/dir

which for your 1st phase would work fine (except that it would chmod everything to 777 not just jpg's and directories).

To reverse it you can't run a recursive chmod because you need different
chmod for files and directories

Code:

find /path/to/dir -name "*.jpg" -print

finds all images in that directory and prints them
xargs executes "chmod 0644" for each image

01-15-2007, 09:28 AM	#1
Calvinguy Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: European Union Posts: 1,752	Help with chmod How do I change filepermission for all .jpg images, folders and subfolders? I want to change to 0777 for a short period while a script make some changes (some images have different owners) and then back to normal again. After the script is finished I want all folders to be 0755 and all .jpg images to be 0644.

01-15-2007, 09:33 AM	#2
darksoul Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: /root/ Posts: 4,997	Code: find /path/to/dir -name ".jpg" -or -type d -print\|xargs chmod 777 reverse Code: find /path/to/dir -name ".jpg" -print\|xargs chmod 0644 find /path/to/dor -type d -print \|xargs chmod 0755 __________________ 1337 5y54\|)m1n: 157717888 BM-2cUBw4B2fgiYAfjkE7JvWaJMiUXD96n9tN Cambooth

01-15-2007, 10:20 AM	#3
Calvinguy Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: European Union Posts: 1,752	Thanks, Never seen it like this before. Can you explain how it's working?