On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:18:51 +0100, luxxius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tony Arnold wrote: > <snip> >> for i in `find /home/diana/music -group diana` ; do chgrp root $i && >> chmod 644 $i; done >> (should be all on one line, excuse the wrap) > > > Tony / Matthew / Robert >>> Many thanks for your quick and very helpful > replies. > > I've tried Tony's one-liner, which would work a treat with orthodox file > names. Sadly, a lot of mine are from CD rips, and contain spaces. So > the suggested script gags on the un-escaped spaces. Rats! > > Looks like I may have to do them by hand after all. > > Thanks ever so much for the ideas, though, as I now know about 300% > about how to do this than I did a couple of hours ago. What a great list! > > -- > Diana
There's a way of replacing the spaces, converting all the filenames to lowercase etc on a wiki somewhere. I'll try and track it down... M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace Lug-Master (http://www.thanet.lug.org.uk), Dad (http://www.helpmeimadad.com/), Ubuntu User( http://www.ubuntu.com/) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
