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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