-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 using bash: for file in `ls /var/mail/*.file` do $owner = `awk -F'.' '{print $1}'` chown $owner:$owner $file done ~J I'm sure someone else will do this as a 1 liner in poerl, actually I can thing of at least 1 way to do it using regex as well justin at jv.dyns.cx wrote: > Could someone please help me out and let me know a script or two that will > change all files eg. /var/mail/user.file so the owner and group are the > same as the file name. Hope this is enough info. Thanks > > JV > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > - -- Jonathan Kline <klinej at msoe.edu> Milwaukee School of Engineering -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCjAsAQkF4UQaOvSoRAnq8AKDLmSb/zSGeHBsz59jz4uid+H7YcACgnxi4 mOElbukP6oE5UpYi5Hi8fw4= =35Pw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----