There's a recursive option on the "chmod" command.
But that doesn't matter.
You should NEVER use those settings on an exploded WAR.
Firstly, because you should always treat the entire WAR as being read-only both to be standards compliant and to avoid major personal pain and suffering.
Secondly, because giving anyone in the world read/write permissions to a webapp's internals is a major security exposure.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
