On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 08:56:56AM -0400, Jonathan T. Steadman wrote: > Is there a way in linux (FC1 if this matters) that I can mass > chmod/chown files? its kind of sluggish doing a directory at a time, i > want to be able to like chmod all the files and folders say in a certain > directory then start climbing directory tree and chmod every folder > inside the main directory. Sorry if this is a newb question, but what > can i say...i am one ;). > > > -- As far as I know: chmod -R <directory name> or chown -R <uid> <directory name> will do that. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx