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find $DIR -type f -print|xargs chmod 666	OR
find . -type f -exec chmod 666 {} \;

thanks again! you guys rock!

Keith

Christopher Fowler wrote:

> 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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