Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:47:01PM +1100, Jeff Waugh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > <quote who="Marty">
> >
> > > anyone know of a utility that will alter the userid of files if i change
> > > the userid of their owner or group...
>
> whats wrong with the "-R" option???
Won't work as requested.
It appears that Jeff has changed this (in /etc/passwd):
httpd:x:503:503:::
to this
httpd:x:690:750:::
(as an example)
And a good question he asks: how can chown change all files owned
by 503.503 to be owned now by 690.750?
The script challenge: do the above in a one-liner using find and chown.
Maybe something like:
find /some/starting/directory -group 503 -user 503 -exec chown 690.750 {}
Rgds
RW
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