how to us the chown command and mv with find command

Alan

12/31/23, 11:45 PM

I have been searching around and found this question which almost solved my problem. The goal is to have a folder on Ubuntu server which other computers connect to and save files. I have two directories ('Movies' and 'TV') inside a folder called 'import'. I modified the command to work perfectly to transfer those files to my actual Plex media directory. The only thing I can't figure out is how to change the ownership of the files to the plex user. Is there a way to use the chown command before moving the files?

I don't want to mess with the import directory because someone (nobody:nogroup) could be writing to it when the chown command executes. The alternative is to apply the chown -R plex:plex command on my /mnt/nfs-plex, but then I am doing that over and over again on my files causing unnecessary hard drive activity. I included my modified version of the commands.

Movies:

find /mnt/import/Movies/ -maxdepth 1 -mmin +30 -type f -exec mv "{}" mnt/nfs-plex/Movies \;

TV:

find /mnt/import/TV/* -maxdepth 0 -mmin +30 -type d -exec mv "{}" /mnt/nfs-plex/TV \;

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Raffa

1/1/24, 7:13 AM

In your case you can either nest two -exec actions after each other like so:

find ... -exec chown ... {} \; -exec mv {} ... \;

Or use a bash command string like so:

find ... -exec bash -c 'chown ... "$1" && mv "$1" ...' _ {} \;

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Alan

1/1/24, 10:01 PM

Thanks! The first command worked. I only know very basic commands in Linux. I need to find somewhere to learn the command line.

pierrely

1/4/24, 8:58 AM

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