Linux: Recursive ownership/permission change

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[PROBLEM]
Sometimes I have the situation where the access rights look like this:

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drwx------ 280 pi   pi   16384 Oct 25 11:29 Data

Now that's no problem for one folder, but "Data" has a thousands of subfolders and files...

[SOLUTION]
Thanks to StackExchange answer by user "WombleGoneBad", here's a great 2-liner:

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$ find /path/to/folder -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
$ find /path/to/folder -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

The first line changes all folder to "drwxr-xr-x" (=755) and all files to "rw-r--r--" (=644).

NOTE: This removes executable rights from files.
This is usually not a problem with data-storage only folders, but definitely a no-go when applied to operating system folders and such.

Needed this 2-lines so often that I found it worth writing it down


It's all in a day's work for "recursive find permission change"!