> Your "-path" argument is wrong. Try this:
>
> find /var/data/foo -path '/var/data/foo/.snapshot' -prune -o -exec chown
> usera:groupb {} +
>
> You need the whole path, and there is no need to escape the '.' character.
> I've also used "+" as the terminator. That's just an efficiency issue. It
> makes 'find' build command lines with as many matches as will fit rather
> than invoking 'chown' separately for each one.
>
>
Hi Robert
many thanks - that resolved ths issue for me
tom