Robert McWilliam wrote: <snip> > -exec wants a command ended with a semi-colon (which you have to escape > to stop the shell interpreting it). Make sure you have a "\;" at the > end of each of the -exec commands.
Robert >>> You're right - I'd accidentally omitted the final ';'. I also needed to run the command with root permission: sudo find ~/music -group diana -exec chgrp root {} \; -exec chmod 664 {} \; Bingo! Perfect! Thank you - and everyone - for the all the help. (And it's not even 09:00 yet! You guys are amazing.) -- Diana -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/