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How do you give read/write/execute to all files in a directory

Asked by Sidarth Dasari

I have a directory which I would like to be made rwx to everybody. What would be the command to do this to the directory and all its sub-directories

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Best Lee Glidewell (lee-glidewell) said : 		#1

chmod -R a+rwx /path/to/dir

This may require you to use "sudo" as well, depending on the current ownership of the directory you want to alter.

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Sidarth Dasari (sirsid) said : 		#2

Thanks Lee Glidewell, that solved my question.