I cannot figure this out...
I would like to change the owner of a bunch of folders whose name begins with a dash...
# chown Administrator -BILLED\ JOBS\ -\ 1997-2002 -R chown: invalid option -- B Try `chown --help' for more information.
# chown Administrator "-BILLED\ JOBS\ -\ 1997-2002" -R chown: cannot access `\-BILLED\ JOBS\ -\ 1997-2002': No such file or directory
# chown Administrator "-BILLED JOBS - 1997-2002" -R chown: invalid option -- B Try `chown --help' for more information.
# chown Administrator '-BILLED JOBS - 1997-2002' -R chown: invalid option -- B Try `chown --help' for more information.
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Craig
Hi Craig,
Craig White wrote:
I cannot figure this out...
I would like to change the owner of a bunch of folders whose name begins with a dash...
When you are using shell commands, if you use double-dash, you don't need to escape it.
[root@red ~]# mkdir -- "-test" [root@red ~]# chown oracle -- -test [root@red ~]# ls -ld -- -test drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle root 4096 Oct 20 16:01 -test
-- stops the commands continuing the parsing the parameters as options.
Cheers,
Hakan
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 16:09 +0100, Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
Hi Craig,
Craig White wrote:
I cannot figure this out...
I would like to change the owner of a bunch of folders whose name begins with a dash...
When you are using shell commands, if you use double-dash, you don't need to escape it.
[root@red ~]# mkdir -- "-test" [root@red ~]# chown oracle -- -test [root@red ~]# ls -ld -- -test drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle root 4096 Oct 20 16:01 -test
-- stops the commands continuing the parsing the parameters as options.
---- I may have known that somewhere in the recesses of my mind
Thanks - solved
Craig
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
I cannot figure this out...
I would like to change the owner of a bunch of folders whose name begins with a dash...
# chown Administrator -BILLED\ JOBS\ -\ 1997-2002 -R chown: invalid option -- B Try `chown --help' for more information.
# chown Administrator "-BILLED\ JOBS\ -\ 1997-2002" -R chown: cannot access `\-BILLED\ JOBS\ -\ 1997-2002': No such file or directory
# chown Administrator "-BILLED JOBS - 1997-2002" -R chown: invalid option -- B Try `chown --help' for more information.
# chown Administrator '-BILLED JOBS - 1997-2002' -R chown: invalid option -- B Try `chown --help' for more information.
?
maybe ...
# chown -R -- Administrator '-BILLED JOBS - 1997-2002'
Make sure all options are before the --, which forces end of options, IIANM.
-Bob
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 08:04 -0700, Craig White wrote:
I cannot figure this out...
I would like to change the owner of a bunch of folders whose name begins with a dash...
# chown Administrator -BILLED\ JOBS\ -\ 1997-2002 -R chown: invalid option -- B Try `chown --help' for more information.
# chown Administrator "-BILLED\ JOBS\ -\ 1997-2002" -R chown: cannot access `\-BILLED\ JOBS\ -\ 1997-2002': No such file or directory
# chown Administrator "-BILLED JOBS - 1997-2002" -R chown: invalid option -- B Try `chown --help' for more information.
# chown Administrator '-BILLED JOBS - 1997-2002' -R chown: invalid option -- B Try `chown --help' for more information.
In most cases, putting a single '-' signals the last "flag" and says anything thereafter is a "normal" argument. Give it a try like this. I'm not sure though.
chown Administrator - "-BILLED JOBS - 1997-2002" -R
I'm unsure of the "-R". If a "flag, move it ahead of the '-'.
?
Craig
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HTH
The right answer is using -- to stop handling command line arguments. There is another trick that might help to do it too: using "./" in front of the filename the filename.
# chown Administrator './-BILLED JOBS - 1997-2002' -R
This should work.
HTH, Filipe
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