chmod and chown recursion (sudo)

[Thufir Hawat]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 18:03:13 +0530, vikash agrawal wrote:

> I guess if you do
> 
> chmod 777 FaceletsEssentials/*
> 
> will do the needful. ' * ' is a willdcard.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Vikasj


Unfortunately, that's the problem :(

thufir at tleilax:~/Desktop$ 
thufir at tleilax:~/Desktop$ ll facelet/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 thufir thufir 4096 2011-03-04 22:28 ./
drwxr-xr-x 5 thufir thufir 4096 2011-03-05 03:20 ../
drwxrwxrwx 5 thufir thufir 4096 2008-06-22 06:15 FaceletsEssentials/
thufir at tleilax:~/Desktop$ 
thufir at tleilax:~/Desktop$ sudo chmod 777 facelet/*
thufir at tleilax:~/Desktop$ 
thufir at tleilax:~/Desktop$ ll facelet/FaceletsEssentials/
creatingAnApp/            pom.xml                   
tagReferenceAndComposite/
custom/                   README.txt                
thufir at tleilax:~/Desktop$ ll facelet/FaceletsEssentials/c
creatingAnApp/ custom/        
thufir at tleilax:~/Desktop$ ll facelet/FaceletsEssentials/creatingAnApp/
ls: cannot access facelet/FaceletsEssentials/creatingAnApp/..: Permission 
denied
ls: cannot access facelet/FaceletsEssentials/creatingAnApp/.: Permission 
denied
ls: cannot access facelet/FaceletsEssentials/creatingAnApp/pom.xml: 
Permission denied
ls: cannot access facelet/FaceletsEssentials/creatingAnApp/src: 
Permission denied
total 0
d????????? ? ? ? ?                ? ./
d????????? ? ? ? ?                ? ../
-????????? ? ? ? ?                ? pom.xml
d????????? ? ? ? ?                ? src/
thufir at tleilax:~/Desktop$ 



-Thufir