bash pipe and chown

[saras]

Anyone know how to pipe an ls -a thru a chown. I basically want to chown on all files in a dir with sub dirs.

[Energon]

chown owner.group *

and to hit all files in subdirectories:

chown -R owner.group *

just directories:

chown owner.group */

no need to pipe anything... just read the man page...

[saras]

Thanks Energon. I thought I could do something like that but I could get the syntax right. I finally used a variation of what you gave me for the hidden files. If you have anytime, check out a post I put in the Window manager list (I'm still in a mess with this problem).

[jemfinch]

man xargs.

Jeremy

[Energon]

well, for hidden files you can do:

chown -R user.group .*

that'll hit all the hidden files... :)