greetings

I'm a little rusty,
I want to search a directory for a changed permission field and reset  
it.

example

ls -la | grep drwxr-xr-x +

(chop the other info) "leave_the_fileDir"
chmod 775 $the_fileDir


it's the chop the other info I forget how to do. anyone have any  
snipit's ?
-j