missinglynk

hello,

so i've been trying to change ownership of all directories in a directory owned by many people to one group. issue is there are dozens of linked directories which i do not what to chown on. so i've been trying to find an easy way to do this and have gotten this far:
# find . ! -user [user] -prune -exec chown -h [user] {} \;
for my effort i get:
find: No match.
now i've changed user to match file owners and/or new owners but still no dice...
can anyone see what the heck i'm missing here?

~lynk

missinglynk

welp i've got it working for single parent dir. now -R :s

mike.lamb

just to clarify this is your example filesystem...
+topdir
-topdir
...-middir
......+subdir
......+subdir
......+subdir
...-middir
......+subdir
......+subdir
...+middir
+topdir




What you are asking is to be able to change ownership of all the middir directories without affecting the subdir directories?

If this is so just use whilst in the topdir directory that contains the affected filesystem.

Hope this helps

missinglynk

Hi mike.lamb,

Yeah that's just what I needed to do, but we're talking gigs of data and hundreds of dirs.
I did what you suggested on the dirs without links, chown -R dir user.
For the ones with links to god knows where I.
# find . ! old_user -prune -exec chown -R new_user {} \;
It took longer then I wanted but kept ownship in place where I wanted too.
...Brute Force is in, oh boy, brute force is in... ;)
Thank you for helping me sort this out.
~lynk