Moving /home

Tez binary_y2k2 at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Feb 21 16:39:15 UTC 2007


Andy Harrison wrote:
>
>
> On 2/21/07, *Stew Schneider* <stew.schneider at gmail.com 
> <mailto:stew.schneider at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     >
>     > find * -group 501 -exec chgrp '{}' 1000 ';'
>
>
> First, don't use asterisk, this will skip hidden directories.  Second, 
> the filename has to come AFTER the group...
>
> Try this:
>
>    find /home/username -group 501 -exec chgrp 1000 {} \;
>
> Or, better:
>
>    find /home/username -group 501 -print0 | xargs -0 chgrp 1000
>
> -- 
> Andy Harrison 
Yet another way is to do:
chown -R --from=1000:501 1000:1000 /home/username

Tez






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