I have a directory ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/cur with hunderds of files
(e-mails) of which I want to switch owner and group from root root to
henkoegema henkoegema

How can I do that in one command ?

Rgds
Henk

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"Henk Oegema" <henk@oegema.com> wrote in message
news:RPa1j.219260$gM5.12435682@phobos.telenet-ops.be...
>I have a directory ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/cur with hunderds of files
> (e-mails) of which I want to switch owner and group from root root to
> henkoegema henkoegema
>
> How can I do that in one command ?

chown henkoegema  ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/cur/* ; chgrp henkoegema
~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/cur/*


Add a -R after the command to recurse into sub directories.

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Noozer wrote:

>
> "Henk Oegema" <henk@oegema.com> wrote in message
> news:RPa1j.219260$gM5.12435682@phobos.telenet-ops.be... 
>
> chown henkoegema  ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/cur/* ; chgrp henkoegema
> ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/cur/*
>
>
> Add a -R after the command to recurse into sub directories.

Thanks. Specific the -R option was, what I needed.   

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On Nov 22, 3:10 am, Henk Oegema <h...@oegema.com> wrote:
> I have a directory ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/cur with hunderds of files
> (e-mails) of which I want to switch owner and group from root root to
> henkoegema henkoegema
>
> How can I do that in one command ?


chown -R henkoegema:henkoegema ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/cur/*

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Lew Pitcher wrote:

> On Nov 22, 3:10 am, Henk Oegema <h...@oegema.com> wrote: 
>
>
> chown -R henkoegema:henkoegema ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/cur/*

Is the henkoegema:henkoegema for owner and group at the same time?

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>
> chown -R henkoegema:henkoegema ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/cur/*


Note that this will not work on filenames that begin with a dot.

A better way...

find ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/cur | xargs chown
henkoegema:henkoegema

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On Nov 22, 9:16 am, Henk Oegema <h...@oegema.com> wrote:
> Lew Pitcher wrote: 
> 
> 
>
> Is the henkoegema:henkoegema for owner and group at the same time?

Yes...

CHOWN(1)                         User Commands
CHOWN(1)

NAME
chown - change file owner and group

SYNOPSIS
chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE...

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On 22 Nov at 16:01 Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> wrote in message
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> On Nov 22, 9:16 am, Henk Oegema <h...@oegema.com> wrote: 
>
> Yes...
>
> CHOWN(1)                         User Commands CHOWN(1)
>
> NAME
>        chown - change file owner and group
>
> SYNOPSIS
>        chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE...
>

Actually, being really pedantic, you only need
chown -R henkoegema: ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/cur/*
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Buckinghamshire, England

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On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:20:58 +0000, Henk Oegema wrote:
 
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> Thanks. Specific the -R option was, what I needed.   

I guess you've never heard of a "man page", eh?


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On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:43:33 +0000,
Tony van der Hoff <news@nospam.vanderhoff.org> wrote:

> On 22 Nov at 16:01 Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> wrote 
> Actually, being really pedantic, you only need
> chown -R henkoegema: ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/cur/*

You're assuming, of course, that the default group is also
henkoegema...  Here, for example, my default group is "users", but I'm
also in a group with my username.  I changed the default myself because
it's actually useful, as long as you're aware of what groups do.


Also being pedantic.  ;)


Fredderic

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