Issue
From what I can tell, I've run into a limitation of chmod - hoping to pick the more experienced brains here before resorting to writing some find scripts.
I would like to chmod -R all files & directories within a folder, but leave the folder itself alone. I need to avoid the permissions of the starting directory changing, at all during this process, so a simple chmod -R followed by a non recursive chmod to reset the permissions on the starting directory isn't an option.
Any ideas?
Solution
Simply give chmod all the files and subdirectories inside the directory, rather than the directory itself. This is easily done with a glob pattern:
chmod -R dir/*
If you want to account for hidden files and dirs, you can shopt -s dotglob in bash.
Answered By - that other guy Answer Checked By - Robin (WPSolving Admin)