Web permissions

Very simple, but very handy: a script which sets the permissions of all files and directories inside a folder to the right values.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os,sys

file_permissions = 0644
dir_permissions = 0755

def change_permissions(path):
    if not os.path.isdir(path):
        os.chmod(path,file_permissions)
    else:
        os.chmod(path,dir_permissions)
        for p in os.listdir(path):
            change_permissions(path + '/' + p)

try:
    directory = sys.argv[1]
except IndexError:
    sys.exit('A DIRECTORY must be provided.')

change_permissions(directory)

Update

Actually, this is much easier:

#!/bin/bash
find $1 -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find $1 -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;