Recursively removing the execute permission

[Munkhbayar Byambadorj]

If you want to change folder permission with all including files and
folders, you can change it easily.

chmod -R -x sample

-R means recursive (including files and folders in sample folder)
-x minus execute permission
sample folder name.



On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Nigel Ridley <nigel at prayingforisrael.net>wrote:

> I need to recursively remove the execute permission on a bunch of [html]
> files that came from a
> Windows box. The problem I have is that there are child directories within
> the main directory.
>
> How can I get this done?
> I did some Googling and came up with:
> % chmod -x ...
> but I don't understand it enough to use it :-(
>
> Blessings,
>
> Nigel
>
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