linux - chmod 777: how to make all files become "RWX"

I want to change permission of each files in a directory. I've been using chmod 777 but its wasting time if I have 50 files.

How to make all files inside directory become rwx without change them one by one?

Answer

chmod -cR 777 *

Will change all the files including subdirectories recursively (R option) including subdirectories, but also report on when it makes a change (c option).

Rather than changing all the files with too wide permissions, you might want to change the ownership instead.

sudo chown -hR tomcat

The line above changes owndership to a tomcat application server, you need to figure out which user your webserver is using. You can easily see that by doing

ps aux

(The h option is for changing the owndership of a symbolic link if encountered, but not the files it linkes to)