chmod can actually do this itself; the X symbolic permission means “execute, if it makes sense” which generally means on directories but not files. So, you can use: chmod -R u=rwX,go=rX /path/to/htdocs The only potential problem is that if any of the plain files already have execute set, chmod assumes it’s intentional and keeps it. … Read more
Use chown to change ownership and chmod to change rights. use the -R option to apply the rights for all files inside of a directory too. Note that both these commands just work for directories too. The -R option makes them also change the permissions for all files and directories inside of the directory. For … Read more
svn uses propset to change file attributes: svn propset svn:executable ON sync.py
0755 = User:rwx Group:r-x World:r-x 0750 = User:rwx Group:r-x World:— (i.e. World: no access) r = read w = write x = execute (traverse for directories)
Make file executable: chmod +x file Find location of perl: which perl This should return something like /bin/perl sometimes /usr/local/bin Then in the first line of your script add: #!”path”/perl with path from above e.g. #!/bin/perl Then you can execute the file ./file There may be some issues with the PATH, so you may want … Read more
man 3 chmod contains the information you are looking for. chmod -R +r directory the -R option tells chmod to operate recursively.
Here’s a summary that I have gathered: Usage: chmod <number> <filename> chmod all files to 644 chmod all .htaccess files to 644 chmod all robots.txt files to 644 chmod all directories to 711 chmod all directories with directory listing (.htaccess Options +Indexes) to 755 chmod all directories that users can upload files to, to 755 … Read more
use find: find . -name “*.sh” -exec chmod +x {} \;
Could finally figure out why permission was changing. The confusion arose from the map archive = yes setting being the default value in Samba. After setting map archive = no, the owner execute bit started behaving like I expected it to behave. Found the answer by reading the documentation over here: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/ch08.html in the File … Read more