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Philippe Blayo
Asked: 2011-05-02 03:55:14 +0800 CST

Change only a specific owner when extracting tar archive

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I have a tar archive containing two owners, 1000 and 0 :

$ tar tfvz archive.tgz
drwxr-xr-x 1000/1000         main/
drwxr-xr-x 0/0               main/root_dir/
drwxr-xr-x 0/0               main/root_dir/home/
-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000         main/root_dir/home/file

Is there a simple way to change ownership only on directories/files with owner 1000 ? Those with owner 0 must stay unchanged.

I didn't find any options in tar or find that select a specific owner, for example tar --no-same-owner change all owners, not only owner 1000 (I extract archive with sudo tar xfz archive.tgz to allow creation of root (0) directories/files).

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can use find's uid switch to do this after you have extracted the files

    find /path/to/files -uid 1000 -exec chown newuid:newgid {} +
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