[NTLUG:Discuss] Is there a Better way to extract a directory owner's UID/GID?

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Mar 9 13:06:50 CST 2006


On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:53:14PM -0600, Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> Issue:  Need to change ownership of a file to be owned by the owner of 
> the current(or parent) directory

FWIW, many chown commands support a --reference= option:

    # change ownership of "file" to match the current directory
    chown --reference=. file     

    # change ownership of "file" to match my home directory
    chown --reference=$HOME  file

Man chown(1) for more details.  On some systems, the chmod(1)
command can also take a --reference= option, to get the permissions
to match.

Pm



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