On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, A. M. Varon wrote: > i'm planning to convert a couple of users to a specific uid and guid. I > have specified it in my passwd file. Since i have to chown the the users > subdirectory by hand... could anybody suggest an awk or perl script(have > yet to learn it...) to do it en masse? > > If you're just going to chown their subdirectory (home directory), all > you may need is "chown -R user.group /home/user", but it depends on > your situation.
I studied awk for a few minutes, incorporated it in my bash script, presto! i solved my own problem. Sorry for the bandwidth. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Andre M. Varon Lasaltech, Incorported Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)433-3520 e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] web page: http://www.lasaltech.com/andre.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .