change permissions of all Folders and Subfolders (also works for files)

change permissions of all Folders and Subfolders (also works for files)

To set the permissions of all files and subfiles, or folders and subfolders run the following:

Folders: find . -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \;
 - Finds all units that are folders and changes permissions to 755

Files: find . -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \;
 - Finds all units that are files and changes permissions to 644

To set files/folders to different permission values, change the integer after chmod to the value of choice.

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