>> find /data -name "*.dat" -exec chown user:group {} \;
> chown -youroptionshere `find . -name "what_you_are_looking_for"`Oh well, why do you suggest bad solutions when good ones have already been brought up? find -print0 | xargs -0 is quick and safe find -print | xargs is quick but not safe find -exec is not quick but at least safe command `find` is not safe and has additional problems Where quick means: Not starting a new process for each file. Where safe means: Handling file names containing white space correctly. Where additional problems are: Prone to overflow the max length of command line args. Try the following: $ touch important $ touch 'not important at all.dat' $ ls -1 important not important at all.dat $ rm -f `find . -name "*.dat"` $ ls -1 not important at all.dat Ooops.
