chown

[Advent Systems]

Disregard this previous post, I was doing it all wrong.
Bob Randal

Advent Systems wrote:

> Guys,
>    I need to change the ownership of LOTS of files.  There are approx 
> 50 sub-directorys, most with sub-sub directorys which have 15-20 files 
> in each.  From what I gathered from the man pages I should be using 
> the -R option with chown but it starts to change the ownership then I 
> get the message: "Operation not supported".  I can go into each 
> directory and change the ownership with "chown <new owner> *" but this 
> is taking forever and It seems there has to be a better way?
>
> Thanks'
> Bob Randal
>