Bash - How To Recursively CHMOD Files And Folders
Posted by The Curious Website Designer | Posted on Sun 10 Jan 2021
Occasionally, especially after extracting an archive, the file and folder permissions are not as they should be; I had a recent example where many files were left with 640 permission instead of 644.
As a reminder to myself, here's how to do it.
Note the backslash and semi-colon at the end are important.
Also if you are currently in the folder you wish to start, you can leave out the "/path/to/files/" part
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