Recursively removing the execute permission

[Mark Halegua]

On Thursday 29 April 2010 09:29:26 am Nigel Ridley 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
> 
If I recall correctly, doing the command like this: chmod -R -x starting in 
the directory above all the others you want to make the change in should work.

Mark