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Old 10-14-2008
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Hey there

I have a problem and i was hoping that you guys could help me out

I want to copy a user privileges to a group and i need to copy all privileges(Recursively) every directory with all its sub directories and I tried some solution and it did not work. I used the following command:-

find $1 -exec /bin/sh -c 'chmod g+`ls -ld "{}" | cut -c2-4` "{}"'

I used this one and I'm new to AIX, and I don't know where does the group name supposed to go or the initial directory and I'm in a huge mess.

so could you please tell me what went wrong or give me another solution that would be great

Thanks in Advance
Last edited by otheus; 10-14-2008 at 06:41 PM.. Reason: Moved - I think this is a general question. Not really AIX specific.
# 2  
Old 10-14-2008

You are missing the final semi-colon:

Code:
find $1 -exec /bin/sh -c 'chmod g+`ls -ld "{}" | cut -c2-4` "{}"' \;

# 3  
Old 10-15-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by cfajohnson

You are missing the final semi-colon:

Code:
find $1 -exec /bin/sh -c 'chmod g+`ls -ld "{}" | cut -c2-4` "{}"' \;


thanks but i still having the same error I have logged in with the owner of the folder then directly typed the exact command above and i keep getting the same error:-

Usage:find Path-list [Expression-list]

so if any one have any suggestions that would be great
Thanks for your cooperation
# 4  
Old 10-15-2008

What is the value of $1? If it may be empty, try this:

Code:
find ${1:-.} -exec /bin/sh -c 'chmod g+`ls -ld "{}" | cut -c2-4` "{}"' \;

# 5  
Old 10-15-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by cfajohnson

What is the value of $1? If it may be empty, try this:

Code:
find ${1:-.} -exec /bin/sh -c 'chmod g+`ls -ld "{}" | cut -c2-4` "{}"' \;

I tried it and i got this error

ls: 0653-341 The file {} does not exist.
chmod: {}: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.

it seems that i should specify the initial directory but I'm not sure

What you think?
# 6  
Old 10-15-2008
I also tried the command
find ${1:-.} -exec /bin/sh -c 'chmod g+`ls -ld "/home/username/" | cut -c2-4` "/home/username"' \;
and it worked with no problem but the permissions did not change a bit.
# 7  
Old 10-15-2008
I didn't understand what you meant by "copy user privileges to a group" associated with the above code. Are you trying to make sure that a particular user's group owns all the files in a directory tree (not change the user-owner)?
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