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Old 11-14-2005, 02:00 PM   #1
Hans Zilles
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Question How to chown -R don.lab * for don.users


Problem...
"don.users" has files scattered all over the place.
I need to change all of them and only them to "don.lab".

Question...
Do I have to hunt them down and change them one by one
or
is there a way to apply chown only to files that have a UID of "don.users"?
 
Old 11-14-2005, 02:07 PM   #2
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Perhaps something like: find / -user don -group users -print | xargs chgrp lab
Or from current dir: find . -user don -group users -print | xargs chgrp lab
 
Old 11-14-2005, 04:52 PM   #3
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find . -user don -group users -print | xargs chgrp lab
produced....
xargs: unmatched single quote

however...
find . -user don -group users -exec chown don.lab {} \;
worked!

Thankyou.
 
Old 11-15-2005, 07:53 AM   #4
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Forgot. Thanks for posting the working solution.
 
  


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