<quote who="Ram Smith">

> I have a shared directory structure where alot of the files in each
> directory have permisions of 644 I wanting to change it so that the files
> are chmod 664 letting all users in the group read and write to the data.
> without nuking the permissions on the directories along with the files.

find <root-of-your-dir-tree> -type f | xargs chmod 644

  (Have a look at the output of find first, and then check the find man page
  for other really handy find options!)

- Jeff

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