On Sunday 13 June 2004 21:12, Pepebuho wrote: >Hi > >If I have a group of files with the same user/owner, how can I > change the user/owner to a different one as a group? > >I was doing some root maintenance and ended with several user files > with root as an owner. I could change the user/owner individually > for each file from Nautilus, but I could not select the proper > files and do a group change. This is odd. > >I know this probably is in the manual but I do not know even where > to start searching or what terms I could use for such a search. > >Please, I know that it is probably more efficient to do it from a > terminal using chown, but given the fact that I was in GUI mode I'd > rather stick to the GUI way (yes, I usually keep a terminal window > open to bypass the GUI when it gets in the way, but in my own > personal opinion, a GUI should not "get in the way".) > >Thanks > >Javier You can read the fine manual for 'chown' (man chown), which you can, as root, use to change a whole directory tree with the -R option. Something like: chown -R amanda:disk /home/amanda/amanda-2.4.5b2-20040510 which will change that whole src tree to be owned by amanda, who is a member of group disk. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.23% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
