How do I do this in telnet?

How would I CHMOD all files in a certain directory and all its subdirectories to 666, and all the folders to 777 without going thru each subfolder and CHMODing every file in telnet?

Hi!

You would need a condition....

test -d <filename>
returns true if <filename> is a directory.
Make a little script that checks with test whether something is a dir and in the else expression place your commands for handling other types of files (i.e. non-directories).

See man test there are more parameters to it if you want do distinguish links, too, and other things..

Greetings,

Atrus.


P.S.: A shellscript condition looks something like:

if test -d ... ; then
chmod ...
else
chmod ...
fi