changing chmod for files but not directories

Question

I need to use chmod to change all files recursivly to 664. I would like to skip the folders. I was thinking of doing something like this

ls -lR | grep ^-r |          


        

Answer 1

My succinct two cents...

Linux:

$ chmod 644 `find -type f`

OSX:

$ chmod 644 `find . -type f`

This works to recursively change all files contained in the current directory and all of its sub-directories. If you want to target a different directory, substitute . with the correct path:

$ chmod 644 `find /home/my/special/folder -type f`