path.py Path.choen supports names in addition to the uid/gid numbers which os.chown supports:
https://pathpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#path.Path.chown https://github.com/jaraco/path.py/blob/master/path.py#L1176 https://pathpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#path.Path.walk On Monday, May 28, 2018, Giampaolo Rodola' <g.rod...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 11:13 PM, Barry <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote: > >> >> On 28 May 2018, at 21:23, Giampaolo Rodola' <g.rod...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> ...as in (not tested): >> >> def _rchown(dir, user, group): >> for root, dirs, files in os.walk(dir, topdown=False): >> for name in files: >> chown(os.path.join(root, name), user, group) >> >> def chown(path, user=None, group=None, recursive=False): >> if recursive and os.path.isdir(path): >> _rchown(dir, user, group) >> ... >> >> It appears like a common enough use case to me ("chown -R path"). >> Thoughts? >> >> >> I wonder if it is very common. >> Don’t you have to be root or use sudo chown? >> In which case it is only python code running as root that could use this. >> >> Barry >> > > You're right, I didn't think about that. I remember myself doing "chown -R > dir" every once in a while but didn't recall I prepended "sudo". =) > > -- > Giampaolo - http://grodola.blogspot.com > >
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