How to run a recursive chmod that stop at FileSystem Boundaries

Question

I have a directory with lots of files and inside a mounted directory.

var/
   log/
   nfs/ (a NFS remote directory)
   www/

How can I chmod/chown everyfiles inside that directory without changing nfs ones.

Natim · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-12 08:03:13Z

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Well my solution was to use find to do that:

find . -xdev -exec chown myuser:mygroup {} \;

answered Aug 8, 2013 at 16:01

Natim

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You could make that a bit faster by doing something like: find . -xdev -exec chown myuser:mygroup {} \+
– Bill Weiss
Aug 8, 2013 at 17:06
and I prefer combining find with -exec rather than piping it to xargs (check here stackoverflow.com/questions/896808/find-exec-cmd-vs-xargs ) for a bit of background...
– Petter H
Aug 8, 2013 at 19:14
\+ or \; here find . -xdev -exec chown myuser:mygroup {} \;
– Natim
Aug 12, 2013 at 8:02

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