[CoLoCo] permission question

[Jim Hutchinson]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Darrin Goodman <darrin.goodman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > Okay, I'm getting it about right. However, all the directories are set
> to
> > drw-r--r-- (i.e. no x). Is there a way to change the dirs to 755 or 655
> or
> > whatever is right without doing it one by one? Using -R will affect
> files
> > too I suppose.
>
> I'm not sure that I know of a way to only apply the 755 permissions to
> directories only.  I think that most files typically will have
> rw-r--r-- permissions, while directories will usually have rwxr-xr-x
> permissions.  You might have to set all of this by hand.  The files
> will be easier to do because you can use wildcards and change
> permissions for multiple files within a directory at one time.
>
>
Thanks for the help. Things are going from bad to worse. I'm contemplating
just reinstalling. I use

sudo chmod -R 755 /home/leina/.*

to set all the hidden dirs but maybe because of the -R it seems to have done
it for all users and everything went wacko (like my wallpaper disappeared).
Now I don't have a clue how to recover. There should be a nice little
program that will reset all default perms if you goof up like this. Well, at
least I learned more respect for the -R flag.

Thanks,
-jim
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