[olug] Chgrp / chown question

[Tim - DZ]

I knew I wasn't stating my question quite clearly...

I don't want to do all the files, just the specific ones...
So:

[root at server]# ls -al 
total 32
drwxr-x--x    6 root     grpA         4096 Aug  8 08:50 .
drwxr-xr-x    8 owner1   grpA         4096 Sep 11 14:05 ..
drwxr-xr-x    9 owner1   grpB         4096 Feb 17  2003 These
-rwxrwxr-x    1 root     grpC         2886 Feb 17  2003 DirNFile
-rwxrwxr-x    1 owner2   grpA         3126 Feb 17  2003 Names
drwxr-xr-x    3 owner1   grpC         4096 Feb 17  2003 Dont
drwxrwx--x    6 owner2   grpB         4096 Feb 17  2003 really
drwxr-xr-x    7 owner3   grpA         4096 Aug  8 09:14 matter

I want all the files/dirs owned by owner1 to now be owned by a user
called "joe" (even on files/dirs lower that current)
and leave files/dirs owned by owners2,3 and root alone.

chmod -R -from=owner1 joe

Ok, so that's good to go

Now I want all files/dirs in the grpB to now be in grpQ (even on
files/dirs lower than current)
And leave files/dirs owned by groups A and C alone.

????   

-t





-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Kenton Brede
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 2:31 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] Chgrp / chown question


On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 02:13:31PM -0500, Tim - DZ wrote:
> So I have a set of directories.  Under the root of this set there are 
> various permissions set and various directories owned by particular 
> users and groups.
> 
> The goal is to basically be able to change a specific owner to a 
> different owner recursively on all files.  And then independantly do 
> the same for the group.
> 
> Now chown has a -from option, so I can recursively (-R option) find 
> all files owner by user A and change the owner on just those files to 
> user B.
> 
> But how can I do the same for groups?

You can use "chgrp -R"  Or do them both at once with chown -
$ chown -R user.group *
               ^
Some variants of chown use ":" as a delimiter and not "." as I used
above. Kent

-- 
"I am always doing that which I can not do, 
   in order that I may learn how to do it." --Pablo Picasso

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