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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