Another_username@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml · edit-28 months agoneed help restoring permissions on my downloads folderlemmy.worldimagemessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageneed help restoring permissions on my downloads folderlemmy.worldAnother_username@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml · edit-28 months agomessage-square37fedilinkfile-text
I removed my permissions on my downloads folder using chmod. can anyone help restore back to default? Thanks!
minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agouseful for chown, less so for chmod: I almost never want my dirs and files with the same permissions, and I made this mistake a few times. find dir -type f -exec chmod 644 -- {} + find dir -type d -exec chmod 755 -- {} +
minus-squarecaseyweederman@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoGo over it with a second chmod -R but with -X to add execute but only to directories
minus-squaretoynbee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoIf all you need is to restore read permissions, you could use symbolic rather than octal: chmod -R a+r $DIR If you don’t want to grant read permissions to everyone you can replace the a with whichever applies of ugo for user, group or other.
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chown, less so forchmod: I almost never want my dirs and files with the same permissions, and I made this mistake a few times.find dir -type f -exec chmod 644 -- {} + find dir -type d -exec chmod 755 -- {} +Go over it with a second chmod -R but with -X to add execute but only to directories
If all you need is to restore read permissions, you could use symbolic rather than octal:
chmod -R a+r $DIRIf you don’t want to grant read permissions to everyone you can replace the
awith whichever applies ofugofor user, group or other.