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Using find to globally change a group name

 
Mike Kuhar
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‎02-19-2004 04:32 AM

‎02-19-2004 04:32 AM

Using find to globally change a group name

Quick question.

I have a user, codba, who owns files throughout the system. I need to change his gorup from dba to appdba. I come up with the find command:

find / -user codba -exec chgrp appdba () \;

Is there a downside to running this command?

thanks -mk
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Mark Grant
Honored Contributor

‎02-19-2004 04:33 AM

‎02-19-2004 04:33 AM

Re: Using find to globally change a group name

yes!

You need to use {} instead of ()

Other than that it will work OK.
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Mike Kuhar
Advisor

‎02-19-2004 04:42 AM

‎02-19-2004 04:42 AM

Re: Using find to globally change a group name

Sorry, a typo on my part.
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Mike Kuhar
Advisor

‎02-19-2004 05:09 AM

‎02-19-2004 05:09 AM

Re: Using find to globally change a group name

Thanks for your imput, Mark. I ran it and it worked as advertised.
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