[ale] chmod question

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Christopher Fowler)]

find /dir -type f -exec chmod 666 {} \;

On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 12:17, Keith Morris wrote:
> Hello all.
> I have a production samba server that has thousands of files that I need 
> to change permissions on. I would like to change all files to have 
> permissions of 666 as there are no linux executable files there.
> 
> Is there a way to use chmod recursively where it will only change the 
> permissions on the files and not the directories?  chmod -R changes 
> everything thus making the directories non-traversable.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Keith Morris
> 
> 
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