Edit Cheeky Factor how to: Change directory and folder permissions on mass

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Recently, I was doing some work on the on a MediaWiki installation. For some reason I had all the permissions set up wrong.

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Obviously, MediaWiki has thousands of files to change. So first of all, in the shell, I ran the command from public_html directory:<blockquote>find -xtype f \| xargs chmod 644</blockquote>That changed the the files. I then ran the following command from the public_html director:<blockquote>find -xtype d \| xargs chmod 755</blockquote>

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