find -type f -exec chmod 644

Question

why doesn t this work I am trying to change all files to 644 abd all -d to 755   find   -type f -exec chmod 644        i get  find  missing argument to  -exec   thanks

User · Answer

A good alternative is this   find   -type f   xargs chmod -v 644   and for directories   find   -type d   xargs chmod -v 755   and to be more explicit   find   -type f   xargs -I   chmod -v 644

User · Answer

I need this so often that I created a function in my    bashrc file   chmodf             find  2 -type f -exec chmod  1         chmodd             find  2 -type d -exec chmod  1           Now I can use these shortcuts   chmodd 0775   chmodf 0664

User · Answer

Piping to xargs is a dirty way of doing that which can be done inside of find   find   -type d -exec chmod 0755       find   -type f -exec chmod 0644         You can be even more controlling with other options  such as   find   -type d -user harry -exec chown daisy         You can do some very cool things with find and you can do some very dangerous things too   Have a look at  man find   it s long but is worth a quick read   And  as always remember    If you are root it will succeed  If you are in root     you are going to have a bad day  Using  path to directory can make things a lot safer as you are clearly defining where you want find to run

[magento] find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ;

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