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Change the mode of files and directories recursively from here to a useful value. Used to fix my cygwin file permissions which keep getting reset to 0000

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<pre>
$ cat ~/bin/chmodr.py
#!/usr/bin/env python

import os
import glob

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

executables = ('exe', 'py', 'rb', 'sh')

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

def chmod(dir):

os.chdir(dir)

print os.getcwd()

files = glob.glob('*')

ordinary = []
directories = []

for file in files:

if os.path.isdir(file):
directories.append(file)
else:
ordinary.append(file)

for file in ordinary:
extension = os.path.splitext(file)[1][1:].lower()
if (extension in executables):
print " Chmod executable file 0775 %s [%s]" % (file, extension)
os.chmod(file, 0775)
else:
print " Chmod file 0664 %s [%s]" % (file, extension)
os.chmod(file, 0664)

for directory in directories:
os.chmod(directory, 0775)
print " Chmod dir 0775 %s" % directory

for directory in directories:
chmod(directory)

os.chdir('..')

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

chmod('.')

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

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