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Hello

I am looking for a script that would CHMOD 777 all files/folders/sub folders etc. in a specified dir

do you know where I could find that ?

thanks

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"If something can happen, it will" Murphy's Law

I can think of a couple of methods.

One way would be to use the system function:
[code][/code]Another way would be to recurse the directory tree yourself and use the Perl chmod function on each file. I've done similar things before; I thought there was a Perl module which does the recursion for you, but couldn't find it.

Online Perl doc: http://perldoc.com/

Be careful doing this.

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look below!

thanks !!
gona try it, usefull when you don't have telnet access

doesn't go pass the main dir

what do you mean? I didnt understand ?

btw there is a little bug in my code above: it only reads the sub dirs in the directory. does not read sub_dir/sub_sub_dir/ etc...

here is the new one, added error control when chmoding:

[code][/code]

but the first one *must* read *all* files in the dir and all subdirs...

so, is it working?

jeologic, I haven't tried your script, but it appears to build an array of all the filenames (full paths), and then chmod the list. Since that could use a lot of memory (if there are a lot of subdirectories and files), do you think it would be better to chmod the files one at a time as they are found, rather than building the list?

yes it builds an array of files, but also builds another array of directories...

You're right... that can be an option (chmod one by one), but this is not a multi-user thingy... so, I dont think that it will eat the memory and take the server down UBBDev has a lot of members as you know... A script I wrote opens & reads all this member files at once and builds "ubbdev haxxor" color files. And it does not take that long to do this in this busy site (but it takes a loooooong time in my old comp)...

A benchmark must be done to compare performance...