775 is "readable, writable, executable" for user and group, and "readable, executable" for other. Do you really want every single file to be executable?

If you just want to make executable things that are directories or are already executable for somebody, something like: 

chmod -R u=rwX,g=rwX,o=rX
will work.

All of the solutions suggested so far have been to use the command-line chmod tool, because that's by far the easiest way to do it. If there's some reason you want to do this with Perl instead, let us know and somebody will be able to help you with that, too.

In reply to Re: chmod 775 on all files by sgifford
in thread chmod 775 on all files by Anonymous Monk

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