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Fulgurance
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 Posted: Thu May 22, 2025 4:19 pm Post subject: Question about chown command |
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Hi guys, I have one question.
I was using recently the command chown in a project recently with find to change a whole directory owner recursively from a user to root, excepted some files. Anyway.
But I noticed that symlinks stay owned as the user. Is it possible to change both owner as root for the file AND the symlink ?
This is the command I used:
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find /mnt/ism \
-path /mnt/ism/sources -prune \
-o -path /mnt/ism/tools -prune \
-o -exec chown root:root {} +
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Basically the symlink sbin pointing to /mnt/ism/usr/sbin is still owned by the standard user after I ran this command. Why ?
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Hu
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| Posted: Thu May 22, 2025 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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According to the info page: | info chown: | ‘--dereference’
Do not act on symbolic links themselves but rather on what they
point to. This is the default when not operating recursively.
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Your invocation is not recursive, so --dereference is default-enabled. If you want to act on the symlink, do not dereference it. |
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Fulgurance
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| Posted: Thu May 22, 2025 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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Ah okay I understand better now. Thank you mate
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orfgor
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| acquire new tip on using 'find' today, thank |
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