How to chmod all folders recursively excluding all folders withing a specific folder?

Question

I would like to chmod all folders and subfolders within a specific folder, except I wish to exclude one folder (and all subfolders it contains).

What I have so far, is a hack of the following solutions from StackOverflow :

• How to set chmod for a folder and all of its subfolders and files in Linux Ubuntu Terminal?
• Exclude directory from find . command

Here is what I came up with so far :

find . -type d ( -path ./node_modules ) -prune -o -print -exec chmod 644 {}\;

The problem is with or without -print I receive the following error :

find: missing argument to `-exec'

The following line has the expected results I need -exec chmod 644{}\; to read from :

find . -type d ( -path ./node_modules ) -prune -o -print

What am I missing on that line to pipe the data to -exec ?

Answer 1

Remove -print, escape ( and ) and add space after {}

find . -type d \( -path ./node_modules \) -prune -o -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Answer 2

After some playing around, I found that the following worked for me :

chmod all files recursively excluding folder

find . -not -path "*/node_modules*" -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

chmod all folders recursively excluding folder

find . -not -path "*/node_modules*" -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;