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Copiyng execute permission (between user, group, and other)

I need to set group/other execute permission for those files/sub-directories that have user execute permission (recursively in a directory).

How can I do it?

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>Solution :

You can use the find command with the -perm option and the chmod command.

find /home/user/mydir -type f -perm -u+x -exec chmod go+x {} \;
find /home/user/mydir -type d -perm -u+x -exec chmod go+x {} \;
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