[Techtalk] In Search Of A Script to Change Attributes Of Files

[Isabelle Hurbain]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 08:39:55 -0600
Kathy Wills <kathywills at kathywillsfamily.com> wrote:

> I made a mistake in the way I backed up my files before I wiped my 
> hard-drive to do a clean install. I have a large number of files in
> two different directories that are now marked as read only when they
> need to be read-write. 

Mmh, maybe I didn't understand the question well, but wouldn't
chmod -R u+w directory1 directory2 be sufficient ? -R standing for
"recursively"...

Isa