I removed my permissions on my downloads folder using chmod.

can anyone help restore back to default?

Thanks!

  • @toynbee
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    39 months ago

    If all you need is to restore read permissions, you could use symbolic rather than octal:

    chmod -R a+r $DIR
    

    If you don’t want to grant read permissions to everyone you can replace the a with whichever applies of ugo for user, group or other.