Recursively chown'ing a directory

You can also do chmod -R u=rwX,g=rX,o=rX /some/dir. See man chmod for explanation.

I was going to submit a patch months ago to make the mode argument in the file, copy, etc. modules take symbolic args as above, but I got sidetracked.

I’ll clean that patch up and put in a pull request by the end of the week.