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

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

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

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

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")

You can just use the -R (recursive) flag.

chmod -R 777 /Users/Test/Desktop/PATH

By using CHMOD yes:

For Recursive file:

chmod -R 777 foldername or pathname

For non recursive:

chmod 777 foldername or pathname