changing permission for files and folder recursively using shell command in mac

Question

In Linux we can use the following command to change permission mode of the files and folders recursively      find   Users Test Desktop PATH  -exec     chmod 777         how could i do the same for mac as i m getting the following error repeatatively      find  TEST FILE  No such file or   directory

User · Answer

You can just use the -R  recursive  flag   chmod -R 777  Users Test Desktop PATH

User · Answer

The issue is that the   is getting interpreted by your shell and is expanding to a file named TEST FILE that happens to be in your current working directory  so you re telling find to execute the command named TEST FILE which doesn t exist   I m not sure what you re trying to accomplish with that    you should just remove it   Furthermore  you should use the idiom -exec program         instead of -exec program         so that find doesn t fork a new process for each file   With    a new process is forked for each file  whereas with    it only forks one process and passes all of the files on a single command line  which for simple programs like chmod is much more efficient   Lastly  chmod can do recursive changes on its own with the -R flag  so unless you need to search for specific files  just do this   chmod -R 777  Users Test Desktop PATH

User · Answer

By using CHMOD yes   For Recursive file   chmod -R 777 foldername or pathname   For non recursive   chmod 777 foldername or pathname

User · Answer

I do not have a Mac OSx machine to test this on but in bash on Linux I use something like the following to chmod only directories   find   -type d -exec chmod 755         but this also does the same thing   chmod 755  find   -type d    and so does this   chmod 755   find   -type d    The last two are using different forms of subcommands  The first is using backticks  older and depreciated  and the other the     subcommand syntax    So I think in your case that the following will do what you want   chmod 777   find   Users Test Desktop PATH

User · Answer

IF they Give Path Directory Error   In MAC      Then Go to Folder Get Info and Open Storage and Permission change to privileges Read To Write

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