#!/bin/bash
# normal_perm: traverses directory trees and sets the permissions to a
# standard accessibility value.  for fred, this is rwxr-xr-x for directories
# and rw-r--r-- for files.

args=$*
if [ -z "$args" ]; then args=.; fi
#echo args are $args
for i in $args; do
  find $i -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ';'
# >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
  find $i -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ';'
# >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
done