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- From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
- Subject: Re: Changing Permissions
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.171827.508@seer.demon.co.uk>
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- Organization: P & L Systems
- References: <1992Nov15.032021.10107@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 17:18:27 GMT
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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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