[X-Unix] Recursive one-line chmod

[Rod Buchanan]

On 9/21/05 11:09 AM, "Phillip Burk" <philburk at mac.com> wrote:

> Alright, I'm trying to use ARD to issue a one-line command that will
> step through all the directories in /Users and assign recursive
> proper ownership.  I don't care if it errors on the Shared folder, I
> have a login hook to blast that to 777.  I have no clue as to the
> proper syntax of the thing although if I were using a script to do
> this I imagine it would use a foreach command to parse the usernames
> from the individual directories themselves and then assign ownership
> based on that username.
> 
> Kinda like this:
> 
> Foreach directory in /Users
>      assign name to $username
>      if $username=="Shared" then next
>      endif
>      chown -R $username:admin /Users/$username

This _should_ do what you want.  It echos the commands to the screen instead
of running them:

for d in /Users/*
do
u=`basename $d`
if [ "$u" != "Shared" ]
then
echo "chown -R $u:admin $d"
fi
done

Here it is all on one line:

for d in /Users/*; do u=`basename $d`; if [ "$u" != "Shared" ]; then echo
"chown -R $u:admin $d"; fi; done

To "make it so" change

    echo "chown -R $u:admin $d"

to

    chown -R $u:admin $d

No warranty expressed or implied.  Your mileage may vary.  Yada yada yada...
:)

-- 
Rod

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