How to change permissions (chmod) of files, folders or sub folders

David Beroff · Jul 25, 2016

Hello everyone,
Are there any ways via SSH that I can change the permissions (755) of files, folders and sub folders without doing one by one.
I have have shell(SSH) access and I want to change the permissions recursively

VirtuBox · Jul 25, 2016

Hello David,

Code:

chmod -R 755 yourfolder

Luxin Host · Jul 25, 2016

Use the code below:

Code:

chmod XXX file

Incase you want to change the ownership of a file use the code below: (useful for multi user use)

Code:

chown username:username file

Kaz Wolfe · Jul 26, 2016

David Beroff said:
Hello everyone,
Are there any ways via SSH that I can change the permissions (755) of files, folders and sub folders without doing one by one.
I have have shell(SSH) access and I want to change the permissions recursively

If you have SSH, to change the permission to 755 recursively, just typing below command

Code:

chmod -R 755 foldername

or

Code:

chmod 755 /home/user/public_html/subfolder -R

This will automatically change the permission to 755 of the files, folders and subfolders inside the foldename

If you want to change just the directory permissions then use the following command:

Code:

find ./* -type d | xargs chmod 755

And if you want to change the permission 755 to only directories in subfolder

Code:

cd /home/user/public_html/subfolder 
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

And if you want to change the permission 755 to only files in subfolder

Code:

cd /home/user/public_html/subfolder 
find . -type f -exec chmod 755 {} \;

How to change permissions (chmod) of files, folders or sub folders

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