sudo dir permissions

Wed Apr 8 16:44:08 UTC 2009

On Wednesday 08 April 2009 18:38:28 Jim Douglas wrote:
> I tried using,
>
>  sudo 777 plugin
>
> to set write permission on a dir and all sub-dirs but it's not working and
> returns no error message...is this the correct syntax? What am I doing
> wrong?

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The correct syntax would be:
chmod -R 777 plugin

sudo is just to run the program (chmod) with root privileges.

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No, thank you.