Replacing ownership of certain files
 

Is there any working commandline alternative to

# find /some/dir -group xxx -user yyy | chown xxxxx:yyyyy

The main purpose is to replace ownership and goup of certain files in subdirectories. Or nevertheless I need to write shell script for that simple operation ?

chown -R (for recursive) should work.

Hmmm. No that would change them all. You want to just change those owned by certain users and leave the rest alone, right?

find /some/dir -group xxx -user yyy -exec chown xxxx:yyyy {}\;

ozanbaba's solution did exactly what I'm looking for except there is extra space needed between {} and \;.

Thanks !

sorry about that

http://linux.die.net/man/1/chown