Chmod Web directories from the command line Posted on: April 1, 2011 by mindeater find /path/to/base/dir -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755 find /path/to/base/dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755 these guys rock http://superuser.com/questions/91935/how-to-chmod-755-all-directories-but-no-file-recursively