# How to recursively set directory and file permissions

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-recursively-set-directory-and-file-permissions/20176>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [January 12, 2016, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-recursively-set-directory-and-file-permissions/20176 "2016-01-12T13:37:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Edward\_Ned\_Harvey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ec9cab/32.png) [@Edward\_Ned\_Harvey](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Edward_Ned_Harvey)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-recursively-set-directory-and-file-permissions/20176/1 "2016-01-12T13:37:23Z")

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If I do this:

file: dest=/foo/bar/somedir owner=root group=apache mode=0775 recurse=yes

It recursively sets the owner, group, and permissions to 0775 on all directories and files in that path. But I want to set directories to 0775, and files to 0644. Is there some way to make ansible do this?

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**Author:** ![Mischa\_ter\_Smitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@Mischa\_ter\_Smitten](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mischa_ter_Smitten)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 8:24am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-recursively-set-directory-and-file-permissions/20176/2 "2016-01-13T08:24:58Z")

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I don't think you can do it in one call.