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Change directory permissions recursively

Here is a command that will let you change the directory permission of all the sub-directories. Often times you only need to change the directory permissions under a given project root, for example, to make a group writable and world readable. This cannot be done with the "chmod -R " command because this will affect files also. We can do the same using the "find" command.
find . -depth -type d -exec chmod 775 {} ;

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This was first published in August 2002

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