chmod recursively?

[lynkynpark86]

If there a way to "chmod 777" recursively, like the -r option on rm?

 

[robbieduncan]

I'm not on a Mac right now. But "man chmod" on the Solaris server I am logged into says

" -R Recursively descends through directory arguments, set-
ting the mode for each file as described above. When
symbolic links are encountered, the mode of the target
file is changed, but no recursion takes place."

Note that's -R not -r.

 

[lynkynpark86]

I'm not on a Mac right now. But "man chmod" on the Solaris server I am logged into says

" -R Recursively descends through directory arguments, set-
ting the mode for each file as described above. When
symbolic links are encountered, the mode of the target
file is changed, but no recursion takes place."

Note that's -R not -r.

-R on OSX 10.6 says: "Change the modes of the file hierarchies rooted in the files instead of just the files themselves."

Is this the same thing? Solaris is unix-like, so it should be the same thing, right?

 

[robbieduncan]

-R on OSX 10.6 says: "Change the modes of the file hierarchies rooted in the files instead of just the files themselves."

Is this the same thing? Solaris is unix-like, so it should be the same thing, right?

Solaris is not unix-like. It is Unix. Linux is unix-like. And yes, the above is a different way of stating the same thing in less plain, but still understandable, English.