Linux recursive chmod only on sub-directories

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I'm on linux, and I have a directory with numerous sub-directories and items inside them. I want to run a recursive chmod on all directories and sub-directories but NONE of the files inside those directories.

chmod -R 777 {folder}

Is there a flag I can add to the chmod command to make the chmod only apply to sub-directories?

score 19 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 03 '12 at 21:58

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Off the top of my head:

find {folder} -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 777

edited Apr 03 '12 at 21:58

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answered Apr 03 '12 at 21:49

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 03 '12 at 21:51

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find {folder} -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 777

answered Apr 03 '12 at 21:51

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 03 '12 at 21:54

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Try:

find {folder} -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;

answered Apr 03 '12 at 21:54

daz

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In general, find | xargs will be more efficient than find -exec as xargs will batch together calls to , whereas find -exec will call once for every result. Obviously though there are some situations in which you want a separate call for each result. – Philip Kendall Apr 03 '12 at 22:10

score 2 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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Straight from the man pages:

And also corroborated here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17091831/538512

use the following format or a derivative thereof chmod -R u=rwX,go=rwX {folder}

Hope that helps!

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 23 '22 at 09:13

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We can also run below command to change permission of all folders recursively.

sudo chmod 777 -v $(find $PWD -type d)

answered Jul 23 '22 at 09:13

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Linux recursive chmod only on sub-directories

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