CHOWN Multiple Files

Teganii · #1 (**permalink**) 08-16-2005

We have a test and training directory. The test is a copy of training. We need to change the ownership and group for a list of specific files from the training directory. Is there a way to feed the CHOWN command the list of files we need changed? We are performing the CHOWN as root. Thanks in Advance.

bhargav · #2 (**permalink**) 08-16-2005

Code:

chown -R user:group training

Teganii · #3 (**permalink**) 08-16-2005

I guess I'm not making myself too clear. The specific files in the training directory have different owners. I have created a list of the files in the training directory that I need to have the ownership changed in the test directory. It's getting that list of files into CHOWN that I'm having the issue with. I tried chown user:group < file_list with no luck. I'm just getting into the UNIX so my learning curve has been VERY steep.

Corona688 · #4 (**permalink**) 08-16-2005

Maybye something more like

Code:

chown user:group `cat list_of_files`

Note that those are backticks, not ordinary single quotes -- same key as ~ but without shift. What it does is execute the command inside it and convert it's output into text, so it would print the contents of the file and convert them into a string which it feeds as commandline parameters into chown.

mattydee · #5 (**permalink**) 02-04-2008

Worked perfectly for me.

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