Recursively change permissions

Recursively change permissions

# Recursively change permissions on directories only:

$ find . -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;

# Breaking it down:

# Uses the find command on the current directory .
# -type d tells find to only look for files of type directory
# -exec tells find to perform the following action on each matching file. In this case it was to chmod each directory to 777.
# This same technique can be used to chown directories and/or perform the same actions on only files.

# Recursively change owner on directories only:
$ find . -type d -exec chown www-data.www-data {} \;

# Recursively chmod/chown on files:
$ find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
$ find . -type f -exec chown www-data.www-data {} \;