If I select all the files and use ctrl + x c it just asks me to change permissions to all the selected files individually and if I do it at the directory level all of the files inside are unaffected. Is there a way to change the permissions of all the selected files at once?
I forgot I had opened this question but a little while after asking it I found that I just need to use in the chmod window (ctrl-x c) instead of , that would produce the results I wanted.