Chmod a+x to all directory and content

chmod

I am trying to install a library called libtool

i am getting "./configure: line 2668: libltdl/config/mkstamp: Permission denied" when i do ./configure

how can i chmod a+x all the libtool directory to prevent this error ?

thanks

Best Answer

Be careful before making permissions changes so deep like this. Before you start, make a backup:
cd libtool
find . -printf "chmod %m %p\n" > ~/perms.txt
Then, to change to make the whole thing a+x (bad idea, but meh):
find . -exec chmod a+x '{}' \;

If anything goes wrong, you can always revert afterwards:
cat ~/perms.txt | bash

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First, do this:

chmod 755 sites/default

The output you are seeing is because you don't have execute permission on the directory:

$ mkdir -p foo/bar
$ touch foo/bar/a foo/bar/b foo/bar/c
$ ls -l foo
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 thedward thedward 4096 2011-01-11 10:28 bar
$ ls -l foo/bar
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 thedward thedward 0 2011-01-11 10:28 a
-rw-r--r-- 1 thedward thedward 0 2011-01-11 10:28 b
-rw-r--r-- 1 thedward thedward 0 2011-01-11 10:28 c
$ chmod 644 foo/bar
$ ls -l foo/bar
total 0
-????????? ? ? ? ?                ? a
-????????? ? ? ? ?                ? b
-????????? ? ? ? ?                ? c
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$ ls -l foo/bar
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 thedward thedward 0 2011-01-11 10:28 a
-rw-r--r-- 1 thedward thedward 0 2011-01-11 10:28 b
-rw-r--r-- 1 thedward thedward 0 2011-01-11 10:28 c

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