[ubuntu-uk] rsync chgrp problem - advice, please?

[Robert McWilliam]

On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:45:48 +0100
Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> 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). 


> 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. 

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