Hello ...

Suppose that I am root and I have a directory in my system called "tartar"

and there are a number of directories and files in that "tartar" directory.

I need to change all the ownership in the directory "tartar" and directories inside of it to let's say: a user called "tommy". BUT I need to change the ownership ONLY for files and directories that don't belong to root.

for example:

"tartar" contains directories (liberty) (cotag) (peace) (cheesecake) and files 1,2, 3. these directories and files have different ownership and the directory (peace) and the file "2" belong to root.

If I wanna change all owner ship to "tommy" no matter what I would have used the command.

# chown -R tommy.tommy tartar.

but I wanna exclude files and directories that belongs to root from the chown process.

can u help me please?


thanks in advance

This looks like a job for... find.

Try this from the tartar directory: Note: You may need to run this as root. Be careful.

thank you so much

it worked