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Tim Abell
Asked: 2010-04-28 06:35:36 +0800 CST

How do I fix a gid on files moved to a new server

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I've copied a folder of data from one linux server to another via a tarball.

The group ids (GIDs) don't match up on the two servers, so I now have files that look like

-rw-rw-r--   1 tim  1013   88 2008-11-14 10:18 config

There is a mixture of group ownerships in the folder, and I want to keep them owned by different groups on the same server, so I can't just use chgrp -R.

How do I change all files/folders with GID 1013 to another group, without affecting other files/folders?

Thanks

linux file-permissions

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer
    sudo bash -c 'find . -gid 1013 -print0 | xargs -0 chown :1212'

    This would change them all files owned by group 1013 to gid 1212. You could add additional options like -type d to find to restrict it to something like only directories, see man find.

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  2. find . -gid 1013 | xargs chgrp newgroup
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