How to give 777 permission to multiple directories at a time in unix?

Question

I have several sub directories in a root directory. at a time i want to give chmod 777 permission to those directories.

i know individually we can give chmod -r 777 abcd but i want to give permission to those directories which ever i require at a time.

Example :

XYZ -- Parent Directory 

ABCD EGF GHY JHF OIEDF -- These are sub directories.

now i want to give chmod 777 to ABCD EGF GHY . at a time to all these directories.

Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

Assuming XYZ is the path to the root of your files, you can use globbing to exactly match the files you want:

chmod 777 /XYZ/{ABCD,EGF,GHY}

Then you can use the -R flag to do it recursively on all files and folders contained in these folders.

chmod -R 777 /XYZ/{ABCD,EGF,GHY}

To apply a non-recursive chmod on the 3 folder plus the parent, you can use:

chmod 777 /XYZ/{ABCD,EGF,GHY,}

Note the last comma, to include the directory itself in the globbing