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MajAfy
MajAfy

Reputation: 3097

Changing owner of all folder except one folder

I want to change ownership of all of my folders, so I use this command:

chown -R root: *

Now I want to say change all folders except ./test folder.

Is it possible ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 810

Answers (1)

devnull
devnull

Reputation: 123608

Set the extglob option and then exclude the desired folder:

shopt -s extglob
chown -R root: !(test)

Upvotes: 1

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