Diana,
luxxius wrote:
> Robert McWilliam wrote:
>> find can be used to run commands:
>>
>> find ~/music -group diana -exec chgrp root {} \; -exec chmod
>> 664 {} \;
>
>
> Robert >>> This seems almost to work, as it seems to get round the
> 'spaces in filenames' problem that the loop solution runs into. But I
> get the error
>
> find: missing argument to `-exec'
Try this instead:
find ~/music -group diana -exec chgrp root {} && chmod 664 {} \;
I'm pretty sure the first \; terminates the whole find command.
Regards,
Tony.
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