Re: find files for user and chown them?

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:31:18 +0100, Kai Schaetzl
<ng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Chris F.A. Johnson schrieb am Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:00:24 -0500:

Then show us what you are using so we can see whether you are
using the correct syntax or not.

find . -user whoever -exec chown someone:somegroup {} \;

Thank you both for the correct syntax. I tried without the escape
slash. Actually, I read about escaping in man, but I did it the wrong
way and tried it for the {}, not for the semicolon. As I understand
the semicolon shows find the end of the -exec command, I didn't expect
it to find it with an escaped semicolon as well. As I understand the
escape is for bash and find gets the unescaped semicolon to "see"?
Doesn't ";" just terminate a shell comand line, anyway, so this
shouldn't make a difference?

This should make it clear:
echo ;
semicolon ends the command

echo \;
semicolon is an argument

echo \; date ; date
the first date is an argument, the second is a command.

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