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how to change ownership on all files in a folder

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Claude Jones

Sunday, 27 March 2005 Sun, 27 Mar '05

8:11 p.m.

Pardon if this is too basic. Is there a way to change ownership for all files in a folder? I want to change from root to user. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA

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Thomas Paine

Sunday, 27 March Sun, 27 Mar

8:18 p.m.

# chown thom:thom -R * This changes owner and group of the file to thom and recursively does the subdirectories as well. You can also change the owner to say thom:cadusers and then anyone in the cadusers group can have permission on the file. -- -=/>Thom

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Bryan M. Johns

8:19 p.m.

use the following as root at a shell from the directory above your target directory (eg - example): chown -R user:user example *Bryan M. Johns* *One Ring Group, Inc.* 300 West Wieuca Road Building One Suite 205 Atlanta, GA 30342 404.303.9900 X: 104 *http://www.oneringgroup.com* <http://www.oneringgroup.com> Claude Jones wrote:

Pardon if this is too basic. Is there a way to change ownership for all files in a folder? I want to change from root to user.

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jery_wang

Thursday, 7 April Thu, 7 Apr

5 a.m.

"Bryan M. Johns" wrote: use the following as root at a shell from the directory above your target directory (eg - example): chown -R user:user example *Bryan M. Johns* *One Ring Group, Inc.* 300 West Wieuca Road Building One Suite 205 Atlanta, GA 30342 404.303.9900 X: 104 *http://www.oneringgroup.com* <http://www.oneringgroup.com> Claude Jones wrote: > Pardon if this is too basic. Is there a way to change ownership for > all files in a folder? I want to change from root to user. > >

copying a directory of files from the cd to /home/thufir creates a ton of locked files with root ownership. Whether this makes sense, dunno, but it can be inconvenient. do people recursively go through these files, or is there an alternate solution? thanks, Thufir -- This is an email sent via the webforum on http://fcp.homelinux.org http://fcp.homelinux.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=57459&to...

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Paul Howarth

5:03 a.m.

thufir wrote:

copying a directory of files from the cd to /home/thufir creates a ton of locked files with root ownership. Whether this makes sense, dunno, but it can be inconvenient. do people recursively go through these files, or is there an alternate solution?

Most likely this happened because you did the copy as root. If you did the copy using your regular user account, you'd be the owner of the files in the first place. Paul.

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jery_wang

Friday, 8 April Fri, 8 Apr

7:07 a.m.

paulh wrote: thufir wrote: > copying a directory of files from the cd to /home/thufir creates a ton of locked files with root ownership. Whether this makes sense, dunno, but it can be inconvenient. > > do people recursively go through these files, or is there an alternate solution? > Most likely this happened because you did the copy as root. If you did the copy using your regular user account, you'd be the owner of the files in the first place. Paul.

from windows, actually. Thufir -- This is an email sent via the webforum on http://fcp.homelinux.org http://fcp.homelinux.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=57918&to...

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Jeff Vian

Thursday, 7 April Thu, 7 Apr

7:28 a.m.

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:00 +0200, thufir wrote:

> > "Bryan M. Johns" wrote: > use the following as root at a shell from the directory above your > target directory (eg - example): > > chown -R user:user example > > *Bryan M. Johns* > > > > Claude Jones wrote: > > > > Pardon if this is too basic. Is there a way to change ownership for > > all files in a folder? I want to change from root to user. > > > > > copying a directory of files from the cd to /home/thufir creates a ton of locked files with root ownership. Whether this makes sense, dunno, but it can be inconvenient. do people recursively go through these files, or is there an alternate solution?

one command "chown". if just for the current directory -- "chown user:group * " if for a directory and ALL files and directories under it "chown -R user:group /path/to/dir man chown for full details.

thanks, Thufir

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Paul Almquist

8:14 a.m.

On Thursday 07 April 2005 05:00, thufir wrote:

> "Bryan M. Johns" wrote: > use the following as root at a shell from the directory above your > target directory (eg - example): > > chown -R user:user example > > *Bryan M. Johns* > > *One Ring Group, Inc.* > 300 West Wieuca Road > Building One > Suite 205 > Atlanta, GA 30342 > 404.303.9900 X: 104 > *http://www.oneringgroup.com* > <http://www.oneringgroup.com> > > Claude Jones wrote: > > Pardon if this is too basic. Is there a way to change ownership for > > all files in a folder? I want to change from root to user. copying a directory of files from the cd to /home/thufir creates a ton of locked files with root ownership. Whether this makes sense, dunno, but it can be inconvenient.

Next time try copying a hierarchy using: cp -a ... which will preserve ownership and permissions. See cp man page for details. The copy may also be done using tar

do people recursively go through these files, or is there an alternate solution? thanks, Thufir -- This is an email sent via the webforum on http://fcp.homelinux.org http://fcp.homelinux.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=57459&to... =13506&forum=10#forumpost57459

-- Paul Almquist paul(a)almquist.name Eau Claire, WI USA

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Bryan M. Johns
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Paul Howarth
Thomas Paine