[ale] chmod question

[Geoffrey]

Keith Morris wrote:
> Hello all.
> I have a production samba server that has thousands of files that I need 
> to change permissions on. I would like to change all files to have 
> permissions of 666 as there are no linux executable files there.
> 
> Is there a way to use chmod recursively where it will only change the 
> permissions on the files and not the directories?  chmod -R changes 
> everything thus making the directories non-traversable.

find $DIR -type f -print|xargs chmod .....

> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Keith Morris
> 
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