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Article #1804Re: Changing Permissions
From: Paul Lynch
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 17:18
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 17:18
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In article <1992Nov15.032021.10107@leland.Stanford.EDU>
spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola) writes:
> Forgive the basic Unix question but...
>
> Is there a way to change the permissions in a folder and all the file
> it contains (including all files in subfolders and sub-subfolders and
> on down to the end) in one Terminal command or one operation in
> Workspace?
In NeXTstep 3.0, the Acces Control panel (Command-4) will do this.
The equivalent shell command is:
chmod -R {permissions} foldername
I think that there was a Workspace way of doing this in 2.1, but I am not
sure.
Paul
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