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Shell script that will recursively set "file" permissions starting from the current working directory (pwd), to 0644 (user=read/write, group=read, world=read).

#!/bin/sh

#
# Recursively set "file" permissions starting from the current
# working directory, to 0644 (user=read/write, group=read, world=read).
#
# chmod options:
#
#   `-v`  verbose, will output files that were changed to 0644
#

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod -v 0644