Chown script

[Paul Howarth]

Franco wrote:
> Hi, this script give me an error `ls': not a valid user
> i need to change the owner with a foldername.group
> i need to read a group of the folder and then change it with
> foldername.group group

You don't need to read the group name if you're not going to change it. You 
can just correct the userid without changing the groupid. The script I posted 
changes the userid and not the groupid.

> antonio tuozzo ha scritto:
> 
>> Franco wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry,
>>> i do an example, i have 2 folder in the same parent folder,
>>> pippo and pippo1 these have as owner and group pippo and pippo.
>>> I need to change just the owner in pippo.pippo and pippo1.pippo
>>>
>>>
>> If I have understand the problem....
>>
>> for I in 'ls /path/to/folder'

The problem you were seeing above is due to the quotes being wrong.

It should be ` rather than ' (both of them)

>> do
>>    chown $I.pippo $I
>> done

This will make the groupid of all folders "pippo". If you don't want to change 
the groupid, delete the ".pippo" from the chown command.

Paul.