I have tried the following command to chmod many images within a folder...
chown -R apache:apache *
But i get the follwing error
-bash: /usr/bin: Argument list too long
I then tried ...
ls | xargs chown -R apache:apache *
and then get the following message...
-bash: /usr/bin/xargs: Argument list too long
Does anyone have any way to do this? I'm stumped :(
Many thanks
William
Answer
Omit the * after xargs chown because it will try to add the list of all file names twice twice (once from ls and then again from *).
Try
chown -R apache:apache .
This changes the current folder (.) and everything in it and always works. If you need different permissions for the folder itself, write them down and restore them afterwards using chown without -R.
If you really want to process only the contents of the folder, this will work:
find . -maxdepth 1 -not -name "." -print0 | xargs --null chown -R apache:apache