Robert,
Robert McWilliam wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:45:48 +0100
> Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Try this instead:
>>
>> find ~/music -group diana -exec chgrp root {} && chmod 664 {} \;
>>
>
> That wont work - the shell sees the && and terminates the command there
> than tries to chmod {}. It might work with a \&\& (I haven't tried it
> though).
Doh! Obvious now you point it out:-)
>> I'm pretty sure the first \; terminates the whole find command.
>>
>
> It doesn't I tried it before posting as using && in the one exec was my
> first thought.
Thanks. I never did quite understand why the ; had to be escaped. It all
makes sense now!
Regards,
Tony.
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