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

[Kathy Wills]

Isabelle Hurbain 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. 
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>Mmh, maybe I didn't understand the question well, but wouldn't
>chmod -R u+w directory1 directory2 be sufficient ? -R standing for
>"recursively"...
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I just tried it again and it worked. I don't know what I did wrong the 
first time.

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Kathy Wills

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