Change the group ownership of directories from A --> B

LinuGeek · 10-18-2018, 07:07 AM

Hello Experts,

i am working on a find command that can recursive find and change the group ownership of all the files/directories from A ---> B ?

A project directory has 100s of Dirs and Files with groupid=50 (proj). We wish to change groupid of only those files/dirs to newgroupid=150(Develop). Ofcourse without affecting other dir/files.

Would following command be suffice?

Quote:

find projdir -group proj -exec chgrp -c Develop "{}" \;

A question, how to take care of symlinks in this case?

Thanks.

Regards.

BW-userx · 10-18-2018, 08:57 AM

yes, try in stable test environment, adjust as needed of course.

Code:

user_name=

find / -group  1002 -exec chgrp -h $user_name {} \;

find / -user 1002 -exec chown -h $user_name {} \;

Quote:

Originally Posted by Man Page

-h, --no-dereference
affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file (useful
only on systems that can change the ownership of a symlink)