[wellylug] permissions munted

[Daniel Pittman]

Rimu Atkinson <rimuatkinson at gmail.com> writes:

> I copied several tens of gigabytes of files off a NTFS disk and every single
> file has the most permissive permissions imaginable. Execute and write for
> everyone (see http:// rimu.geek.nz/Screenshot.png )
>
> If I do chmod -x * then all the directories can't be opened any more, which
> isn't cool.

Find works, as the other poster offered, but GNU chmod has a useful feature
for this:

    chmod -R ug=rwX,o=rX /path/to/root/dir

The 'X' rather than 'x' means "execute bit only for directories".

Regards,
        Daniel

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