Linux Permissions Unraveled: How to Avoid 'chmod 777' and Keep

chmod 777chmod 777 -R .* ..[!.]* Bash has this command. shopt -s dotglob to also include hidden files in commands (shopt -u dotglob to disable that behaviour) if you want to stick tochmod 777 is considered potentially dangerous because you are giving read, write and execute permission on a filedirectory to everyone.