how to change ownership recursively with .<filename> files

sde · 12-14-2007, 10:52 AM

i have this subversion checkout which has wrong owners inside some of the .svn directories.

chown -R owner:owner /path/to/project

that doesn't seem to catch the .svn directories.

how can i achieve this?

sde · 12-14-2007, 11:19 AM

Code:

$ find -n '.svn' |xargs chwon -R user:group

teknomage1 · 12-17-2007, 09:15 PM

I love xargs. It's like the unix supertool. If you have any filenames with spaces though it can confuse xargs so it's often better to do.

Code:

find <conditions> -print0 |xargs -0 <command>

The print0 separates the find output with null characters and the -0 (a numeric zero not a capital O) option on xargs tells it to split on nulls.