mass chmod chown...

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 08:56:56AM -0400, Jonathan T. Steadman wrote:
> Is there a way in linux (FC1 if this matters) that I can mass
> chmod/chown files?  its kind of sluggish doing a directory at a time, i
> want to be able to like chmod all the files and folders say in a certain
> directory then start climbing directory tree and chmod every folder
> inside the main directory.  Sorry if this is a newb question, but what
> can i say...i am one ;).
> 
> 
> -- 
As far as I know: chmod -R <directory name> or chown -R <uid> <directory name>

will do that.
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