[NTLUG:Discuss] fixing/managing file rights - samba

[Greg Edwards]

Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> 
> If you ever find yourself in the need to do some surgical file 
> maintenance, you might trying using the syntax...
> 
> find (insert your options) | while read X ; \
>  do (Insert your command here) "$X" ; done
> 
> My commands turned out to be,
> 
> # find . -type d | while read X ; do chmod 2770 "$X" ; done
> # find . -type f | while read X ; do chmod 2660 "$X" ; done
> 
> Note: I put quote marks around $X so that I could encompass those space 
> filled directory names.
> 
> Another use I've put this to...
> 
> #Set a new owner to be the owner of any unowned files in this directory
>  find . -type f -nouser | while read X; do chown bob "$X" ; done
> 
> 

I like to use the -exec option with find for these kinds of commands.

# find . -type d -exec chmod 2770 "{}" ";"
# find . -type f -exec chmod 2660 "{}" ";"

The find exec processing will take care of all of the oddball filename 
issues for you.  This will run a little faster than piping to a shell for 
processing.  And since we are using a real OS you can put them in the 
background and go about your business elsewhere ;\

-- 
Greg Edwards