Thank You for the reply. It never hurts to keep learning.
Steve
At 11:24 AM 9/19/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>the {} is a placeholder for the pathname of each file found
>
>for some reason, commands need to be ended with an escaped semicolon...
>
>kristina
>
>On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:10:45AM -0500, Steve Buehler wrote:
>- Ok. I found another way of doing it. Since chown does not appear to work
>- the way the "chown --help" says that it will. I now run this find command:
>- find ./ -user ryukyu -group settlers -exec chown skb.skb {} \;
>- Now, can someone explain to me what the "{} \;" part of the command does/is
>- for? It won't run without that part and I can't find anyplace that tells
>- me what it is for.
>-
>- Thanks
>- Steve
>-
>- >By the way, I have tried the following command that "chown --help" says to
>- >do but it doesn't seem to do anything:
>- >chown -R --from=ryukyu:settlers skb.skb *
>- >and
>- >chown -R --from=ryukyu.settlers skb.skb *
>- >
>- >Thank You
>- >Steve
>- >
>- >At 09:18 AM 9/19/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>- > I can't figure something out. I am trying to come up with a
>- > command line way through programs already on the system (RedHat 7.2) or a
>- > script that will do the following.
>- > Change ownership of all files in a directory that are owned by a
>- > specific user, leaving files that are not owned by that user alone. It
>- > needs to start in that directory and go through ALL sub directories of
>- > the directory that I am starting in and do the same thing without having
>- > to name all of the subdirectories.
>- > For another script, I would like it to change permissions on all
>- > files that end in a certain extention(s). It should work in the same way
>- > though. Meaning that it will go through all sub directories and sub
>- > directories of the sub directories, etc...
>- > Does anybody know how to do that from the command line, or knows
>- > of a script that will do that. I don't want the scripts to do any more
>- > than just that. That way, if it is a script, it will be only one file
>- > and kind of small....I hope.
>- >
>- >Thank You
>- >Steve
>-
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