chown

[S. Lawton]

On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 05:24:03 -0500
Advent Systems <adventsystems at verizon.net> wrote about "Re: chown":

> 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
> >
> 

Bob - for those of us that are curious, and save our nflug messages for future reference, could you please post what you did that DID work ?
I've always done it one by one in a GUI file properties box depending on which distro I'm playing with. 
I've always got to have my wallpapers and mp3s that are stored on Windows partitions. :-)
Thanks
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