To turn on read, write, and execute permissions, and turn off the setuserID bit, setgroupID bit, and sticky bit attributes This is equivalent to chmod 0777 aprsal chmod a=rwx aprsal;Change Permissions Recursively For example following command will set permissions 755 (rwxrxrwx) on public_html directory in home directory and all its sub directories $ chmod R 755 ~/public_html But you don't like to set the similar permissions on files and directories both 1026 If you are going for a console command it would be chmod R 777 /www/store The R (or recursive) options make it recursive Or if you want to make all the files in the current directory have all permissions type chmod R 777 / If you need more info about chmod command see File permission Share What Is The Meaning Of Chmod 755 And How To Execute And Verify It Chmod recursive file pattern