Finding all directories with a certain string then changing permissions

Question

I'm trying to combine two things.

I have to set permissions on a number of directories, all of which have "domain-" in their name.

I wanted to "find all directories in the current directory that have the string 'domain-' in their names and change the permissions to 755.

I keep getting syntax errors and am so frustrated that I just need to ask!

thanks

Solution

I would use the find command:

find . -type d -name 'domain-*' -exec chmod 755 {} +

• . specifies the path to search.
• -type d makes this only apply to directories.
• -name ... specifies the name of the directories this should apply to.
• -exec ... {} + is the command that will be run for each collection of matchs.

Comments

[kelly johnson]

Thanks Thor, that was exactly what I needed and a nice explanation.