John Oliver wrote:
I want to go through a directory recursively, find all files owned by a
certain group, and change them to a different group ownership.  find and
cut aren't doing the trick for me, since there are different numbers of
spaces.  Is there a better tool to do this with?

find <startdir> -group <oldgroup> -print -exec chgrp <newgroup> {} \;

The purists would have you use xargs, but I like to see the progress as it scans the disk.

-a


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