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Old 08-16-2005
CHOWN Multiple Files
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.
Last edited by Teganii; 08-16-2005 at 01:01 PM..
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Old 08-16-2005
Code:
chown -R user:group training

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Old 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.
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Old 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.
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Old 02-04-2008
Worked perfectly for me. Smilie
 
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