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I have a directory with about 100 sub directories. Some of these sub directories are "Wordpress folders" others are not. What I would like to do is change the ownership of the themes and plugin directories inside the "Wordpress folders". I'm using this command to get the list of these directories:

find . -maxdepth 3 -type d | grep 'wp-content/themes\|wp-content/plugins'

How could I make change the ownership of all plugins and themes subdirectories?

pa4080
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koni_raid
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  • Could you please add a little more detail? What exactly did you do, what did you want to achieve and what happened instead? Did you encounter any warning or error messages? Please reproduce them in their entirety in your question ([edit]). You can select, copy and paste terminal content and most dialogue messages in Ubuntu. (see How do I ask a good question?) – dessert Nov 17 '17 at 08:55
  • I used this command to get a list of the Wordpress folders: find . -maxdepth 3 -type d | grep 'wp-content/themes' – koni_raid Nov 20 '17 at 08:48
  • You should rather use find . -maxdepth 3 -type d -path "*wp-content/themes*" and always add additional information directly to your question with [edit], but that still doesn't clarify much. What's the overall problem, what exactly do you want to achieve? Does the find command list all the directories you want to modify? – dessert Nov 20 '17 at 08:55
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    Add how to identify your folders. Is there any reason why you can't just do chown -R user:group */wp-content/themes? – muru Nov 20 '17 at 09:08
  • You could modify your command in this way: find . -maxdepth 3 -type d -regextype posix-extended -regex '.*wp-content/(themes|plugins)' -exec echo chown -R User:Group {} \;. Tweak the User:Group part. When the output looks sufficient remove echo to do the changes. – pa4080 Nov 20 '17 at 09:22

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You could modify your command in this way: 

find . -maxdepth 3 -type d -regextype posix-extended -regex '.*wp-content/(themes|plugins)' -exec echo chown -R user:group {} +
  • Change the user:group pair with the actual user and group.
  • Change the end of the find command from {} + to {} \; to output separate commands for each directory - it could be more easy to read (reference).
  • Remove echo to do the changes.

I'm afraid that @muru's solution is more elegant :) It could be modified in this way:

echo chown -R user:group */wp-content/{themes,plugins}
  • Change the user:group pair with the actual user and group.
  • Remove echo to do the changes.
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