Recursively Fixing File Permissions

Ahhh, the joys of restoring/moving files from a FAT32 external hard disk to a *nix system. Everything is 777, grrrrr. The all-knowing Google kindly directed me to try the following:

$ find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644

to chmod all files to 644, and

$ find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755

to chmod all directories to 755. Ahhh, the joys of bash commands.