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

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:45:23 +0100, Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
>> On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:02:06 +0100, luxxius <luxxius at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>>> Neil Greenwood wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>> check the group for the files that gave errors and one
>>>> of the files that didn't. Change the problem files to be in the group
>>>> that isn't causing problems.
>>> I can find all the files with the group that's causing the hiccup using
>>>
>>> 	find /home/diana/music -group diana
>>>
>>> Is there a simple way to redirect the results to chgrp root and then
>>> chmod them to 664 so that I can automate this in future?
>>>
>>> (I've been trying, without success, to pipe the find results, but I'm
>>> struggling now.  Books are fine for individual commands, but not much
>>> help for creating processes or very simple scripts)
>>>
>>> TIA
>>> --
>>> Diana
>>
>>
>> Try (and this may need checking by others!)
>>
>> for i in find /home/diana/music -group diana; do chgrp root $i && chmod
> 644 $i; done
> 
> You need back quotes around the find command, viz:
> 
> for i in `find /home/diana/music -group diana` ; do chgrp root $i &&
> chmod 644 $i; done
> 
> (should be all on one line, excuse the wrap)

I knew I'd missed something out... 

Cheers Tony,

M.