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

[Tony Arnold]

Diana,

luxxius wrote:
> Robert McWilliam wrote:
>> find can be used to run commands:
>>
>> 	find ~/music -group diana -exec chgrp root {} \; -exec chmod
>> 		664 {} \;
> 
> 
> Robert >>> This seems almost to work, as it seems to get round the 
> 'spaces in filenames' problem that the loop solution runs into.  But I 
> get the error
> 
> find: missing argument to `-exec'

Try this instead:

find ~/music -group diana -exec chgrp root {} && chmod 664 {} \;

I'm pretty sure the first \; terminates the whole find command.

Regards,
Tony.
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