按名称查找文件夹并将其子文件夹的权限递归设置为755

Question

Im trying to pipe the result of find . -type d -name 'uploads' find . -type d -name 'uploads' into another find function to then find all the child folders and set the permission, but it's not accepting it.

Can anyone help? What I want to do is find a folder called 'uploads', and all the child folders set their permissions to 755, and all the files to 777.

Answer 1

Not particularly elegant, but a while loop will do the job (unless you have folders with newlines in the name or something, in which case xargs or parallel would be a better choice)

find . -type d -name 'uploads' | while read d; do chmod -R 755 "$d"; done

... with xargs, you can only do the single command, but that seems to be all you need

find . -type d -name 'uploads' -print0 | xargs -0 chmod -R 755 

E: To follow the request to make all the sub-directories 755 and files 777, the while loop will do it:

 find . -type d -name 'uploads' | while read d; do 
    find "$d/" -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755; 
    find "$d/" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 777; done