Worked perfect. Thanks, Erinn!
Scott
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 19:39, Erinn Looney-Triggs <
erinn.looneytriggs@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/30/2011 8:05 PM, Scott A. Johnson wrote:
> > I have a directory with thousand of subdirectories and thousands of files
> in
> > each subdirectory. Is there anyway to run chmod/chgrp/chown at the top
> of
> > the file tree and have the changes apply recursively to the files within
> the
> > subdirectories, but not the directory itself?
> > For instance:
> >
> > /Top/Level/Directory/File.txt
> >
> > I'd like to be in /Top and run "chown -R root" and have the ownership
> change
> > on all the files under /Top (eventually making its way to File.txt), but
> I
> > need the ownership on /Top/Level and /Top/Level/Directory to stay as-is.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
> From /Top:
>
> find . -type f -exec <chmod|chown|chgrp> \{\} \;
>
> -Erinn
>
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