At long last I’m finally switching operating system for my gaming PC. I have a lot of photos and such saved that have been moved from an NTFS drive. Is there any tool out there to help me fix the permissions of these files according to file type in bulk?

  • Consti
    9•1 day ago

    If you need finer control than recursive chmod (see other replies), you can also use find to match precisely which files/folders you want and use the -exec parameter to run chmod on those

    • @stuner
      8•1 day ago

      I wanted to write the same thing. E.g., you can run this in bash to set the permissions for all .conf files to 600:

      find /mnt/the/directory -iname "*.conf" -exec chmod 600 {} \;