How to set the permission drwxr-xr-x to other folders?

Question

I have few directores inside a folder like below -

teckapp@machineA:/opt/keeper$ ls -ltrh
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x 10 teckapp cloudmgr 4.0K Feb  9 10:22 keeper-3.4.6
drwxr-xr-x  3 teckapp cloudmgr   4.0K Feb 12 01:44 data

I have some other folder as well in some other machines for which I need to change the permission to the above one like this drwxr-xr-x.

Meaning how can I change any folder permissions to drwxr-xr-x? I know I need to use chmod command with this but what should be the value with chown that I should use for this?

Please consider reading this link - http://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix/unix-file-permission.htm — rahul, Feb 12 '15 at 09:04
a better source after the man page would be http://www.tldp.org/LDP/GNU-Linux-Tools-Summary/html/x9543.htm — mtk, Feb 12 '15 at 10:12

score 55 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 12 '15 at 09:57

55

To apply those permissions to a directory:

chmod 755 directory_name

To apply to all directories inside the current directory:

chmod 755 */

If you want to modify all directories and subdirectories, you'll need to combine find with chmod:

find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +

answered Feb 12 '15 at 09:57

aguslr

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If you want to inlcude subdirectories, use: chmod -R 755 */ – Fusca Software Nov 25 '22 at 09:48

score 11 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 12 '15 at 13:24

11

For drwxr-xr-x it is:

chmod 755  the_path_to_target

For drwxrwxr-x it is:

chmod 775  the_path_to_target

answered Feb 12 '15 at 13:24

serenesat

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 28 '21 at 15:18

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As an addition to @aguslr (I do not have enough reputation to comment):

chmod as well as chown has a -R flag, that changes all rights recursively

answered Mar 28 '21 at 15:18

Pibe_chorro

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How to set the permission drwxr-xr-x to other folders?

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