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I need to recursively change the permissions of all folders, sub-folders and files from within ~/.local/share/Trash/expunged Does anyone have a clue or idea on how to do this?

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I have tried following the instructions from this question but to no avail. chmod -R ug+rw <foldername> doesn't seem to be working for this folder, its subdirectories, or enclosed files.

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Does anyone know the chmod command to change these permissions? For example: 

root@santos:/home/santos/.local/share/Trash# ls -l
total 12
drwx------ 3 santos santos 4096 Mar 21 21:38 expunged
drwx------ 2 santos santos 4096 Mar 21 21:38 files
drwx------ 2 santos santos 4096 Mar 21 21:38 info
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From the screenshot it seems like the chmod command worked well. As you wrote chmod -R ug+rw it gave a read/write permission to the user and group of the recursive folders.

If you want to give everybody a read/write permission you should add 'a' to your command so that it will be chmod -R uga+rw.

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    Actually, `o` means "other users." `a` is short for `ugo`. `uga+rw` is equivalent to `ugo+rw`, but they're only equivalent when `u` and `g` are specified. – Eliah Kagan Jul 14 '12 at 14:59
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    actually "**a**" means "**all**" (which should be the default). the letter "**o**" is for "**other**". unless your referring to using the "**o**" in addition to another permission and not trying to define the ownership. –  Jan 02 '13 at 06:36
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try by using numeric values

chmod -R 660 directorymainname
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    That will remove the execute bit from all directories in the specified tree, for all users, which will [prevent anybody from entering the directories](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_permissions#Permissions). – Eliah Kagan Jul 14 '12 at 14:58