> Luckily each directory name is the same as the user who should own the file.
> So what I want to do is have a script that goes recursively through and
> chown's -R the directory called STUDENT_A to be owned STUDENT_A etc.
>
> So that it looks like:
>
> drwx------ 8 student_a domain users 4096 2007-08-01 15:26 STUDENT_A
> drwx------ 10 ANO_STU_B domain users 4096 2007-08-01 15:26 ANO_STU_B
>
> I am sure this should be really easy but my attempts to do this have
> failed.
>
> Anyway, any thoughts would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
I have been running this script for the last 3 years or so now every minute to
do close
to what you want:
#!/bin/bash
for file in /home/Drop/*
do owner=$(ls -ld \
"$file"\
|awk '{print $3}')
chown -R $owner \
"$file"
done
I have a folder called Drop in /home/Drop and inside these folders is a folder
for every
teacher (/home/Drop/Teachername). I have set the correct permissions on the
teachers
folder but students drop homework into their respective teacher's folders and
the newly
written file is owned by the student, when I need it owned by the teacher. So
the
script chowns all files recursively with the owner that is set for the
/home/Drop/teachername. This isn't exactly what you are looking for but might
easily be
modified to what you need. I haven't tested but I think if you change the "ls
-ld" on
line 3 to "ls -l" and change the "print $3" to "print $9" I think it will do
what you
want. See below:
#!/bin/bash
for file in /home/Drop/*
do owner=$(ls -l \
"$file"\
|awk '{print $9}')
chown -R $owner \
"$file"
done
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