List Directory Truncated? How to?

[Matteo Sacco]

Hi at all...

I have a dir with 2gb of post, image,etc...(12000+ ...is a forum)

I need to change permission (or to view entire structure) but via ftp this folder are truncated to 2000 ...

How can view all of this files? (waiting the right time...)
How can i change all permissions at all files quickly?

[rainboy]

Matteo,

Do you have shell access, then login to your account and set the permissions like:

chmod 755 -R /directory2change/

will change all directories and files under /directory2change/ to 755

( -R, --recursive change files and directories recursively )

USE WITH CAUTION!!!!

Kind regards,
Patrick

[Matteo Sacco]

thanks,

little more: what is the command via shell to know how many files are in folders?

[rainboy]

thanks,

little more: what is the command via shell to know how many files are in folders?

That is maybe a bit more tricky under linux as under windows..

go to the directory and issue: ls -Al |wc -l
It will see directories also as file names though. (-A excludes . and ..)

or if you also want to directories below the directory you are looking at:
ls -AlR |wc -l

wc -l is nothing more as a line count, so i count the lines the ls command gives back to you.

Maybe there are better ways, but this will what you asked.

Kind regards,
Patrick