chmod only directories, or specific files, recursively.

I keep forgetting the exact syntax of this command, so thought I would post it to myself (and anyone who could benefit from it) here, where Iknow I can find it anywhere.

to chmod just directories, recursively:

find ./ type d -exec chmod 755  {} \;

To chmod just files recursively (all):

find ./ type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

To chmod just directories (or files, just change "-type d" to -type f")with a specific string match:

find , -type d -name '*bin*' -exec chmod 755 {} \;

find . -type f -name '*.htm*' -exec chmod 640 {} \;

On a barely related note, to get a cound of files in a directory (recursively):

ls -1R | wc -l

Enjoy!