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

[Tony Arnold]

Robert,

Robert McWilliam wrote:
> 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). 

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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