Numeric File Permissions in Unix

[Igor]

Suppose you are working with a Web server and your task is to make sure that no files or directories have permissions “777″. It would be easy to just recursively change permissions for all files to something like 644, but this may cause unexpected problems. You only need to change those files and directories that have “777″ permission and leave everything else as it is. Here is a simple script that will do just that...

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