Ah. Slight problem folks. The instructions appear to have reset all
the files in the music folder so that the owner (diana) and group (root)
are set to 'list, create/delete, no access' and no file permissions
(---). When I try to use nautilus to look at files, they vanish! Very
worrying. A little more help?
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Diana
Tony Arnold wrote:
> Robert,
>
> Robert McWilliam wrote:
>> On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:45:48 +0100
>> Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Try this instead:
>>>
>>> find ~/music -group diana -exec chgrp root {} && chmod 664 {} \;
>>>
>>
>> That wont work - the shell sees the && and terminates the command there
>> than tries to chmod {}. It might work with a \&\& (I haven't tried it
>> though).
>
> Doh! Obvious now you point it out:-)
>
>>> I'm pretty sure the first \; terminates the whole find command.
>>>
>>
>> It doesn't I tried it before posting as using && in the one exec was my
>> first thought.
>
> Thanks. I never did quite understand why the ; had to be escaped. It all
> makes sense now!
>
> Regards,
> Tony.
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