Piping to xargs is a dirty way of doing that which can be done inside of find. find . -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \; find . -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \; You can be even more controlling with other options, such as: find . -type d -user harry -exec chown daisy … Read more
A find -exec answer is a good one but it suffers from the usually irrelevant shortcoming that it creates a separate sub-process for every single file. However it’s perfectly functional and will only perform badly when the number of files gets really large. Using xargs will batch up the file names into large groups before … Read more
An easy way is to let PHP create the directory itself in the first place. <?php $dir=”myDir”; // create new directory with 744 permissions if it does not exist yet // owner will be the user/group the PHP script is run under if ( !file_exists($dir) ) { mkdir ($dir, 0744); } file_put_contents ($dir.’/test.txt’, ‘Hello File’); … Read more
chmod a+x modifies the argument’s mode while chmod 755 sets it. Try both variants on something that has full or no permissions and you will notice the difference.
To enable changing file owners & permissions, you need to edit /etc/wsl.conf and insert the below config options: [automount] options = “metadata” Do this inside the WSL shell, potentially needing sudo to edit/create the file. This may require restarting WSL (such as with wsl –shutdown which is a Windows command, not one within WSL) or … Read more
This is the most restrictive and safest way I’ve found, as explained here for hypothetical ~/my/web/root/ directory for your web content: For each parent directory leading to your web root (e.g. ~/my, ~/my/web, ~/my/web/root): chmod go-rwx DIR (nobody other than owner can access content) chmod go+x DIR (to allow “users” including _www to “enter” the … Read more
Found this on a different forum If you’re wondering why that leading zero is important, it’s because permissions are set as an octal integer, and Python automagically treats any integer with a leading zero as octal. So os.chmod(“file”, 484) (in decimal) would give the same result. What you are doing is passing 664 which in … Read more
According to mkdir’s man page… mkdir -m 777 dirname
Use os.stat() to get the current permissions, use | to OR the bits together, and use os.chmod() to set the updated permissions. Example: import os import stat st = os.stat(‘somefile’) os.chmod(‘somefile’, st.st_mode | stat.S_IEXEC)
One approach could be using find: for directories find /desired_location -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0755 for files find /desired_location -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0644