Leave other privileges untouched execute 1. Another advantage of the find command is it searches recursively for the specified path for only folders, not files. chmod 777 file.txt (or) chmod ugo+rwx file.txt Give execute privilege to user. By using the find command folders can be searched according to their names and their permissions can be changed properly.

The find command can be used as a helper to the chmod command. $ chmod 755 $(find /home/ismail/Downloads -type d) Change Folder Permission According to the Folder Name This command finds folders with the find command and changes only folders permissions, not the files. But if we do not want to change files permissions and change only the folders located under the specified path the following command can be used. The recursive option changes both folders and files permission for the specified folder. In the following example, we change permission for вЂњ DownloadsвЂќ and all subfolders. But the recursive option can be specified to the chmod command in order to change the specified folder and all subfolders permissions with a single command. $ chmod 777 Downloads Music Pictures Change Folder and Subfolders Permissions RecursivelyД«y default, the chmod command changes only specified folder permission not the contents of the folders with its subfolder. Answer (1 of 5): Well the octal setting of 777 will turn on all the read/write/execute bits of a file (everything in Unix is fundamentally a file)and those are the only ones which one need bother about most of the time. In the following example, we change the permissions for the folders вЂњ DownloadsвЂњ, вЂњ MusicвЂњ, вЂњ PicturesвЂњ. The folders we want to change permission are provided after the permission value. The chmod command can be also used to change multiple directories permissions in single command execution. Also, the first column provides вЂњ drwxrwxrwxвЂќ which means this is a directory with the specified permissions. From the output, we can see that the вЂњ DownloadsвЂќ folder permission is set as вЂњ 777вЂќ and colored as вЂњ greenвЂќ to highlight this situation. If you are going for a console command it would be chmod R 777 /www/store The R (or recursive) options make it recursive Or if you want to make all the files in the current directory have all permissions type chmod R 777 / If you need more info about chmod command see File permission The chmod (Change Mode) command lets you apply permissions to files chmod 777 So, running chmod 777 /path/to.

Chmod 777 recursively