Unix command to exclude a particular directory and its contents using chown, while permission to oth-CodePudding

I'm using the below command to change the ownership (using chown) of sets directories and files present under a /opt/var and trying to exclude .snapshot directory and its contents.

find /opt/var/ ! -name '.snapshot' | xargs -I {} chown 2000:2000 {};

However, it only excludes .snapshot but its contents get permission applied.

Am I missing anything here? I am trying to achieve in one line.

CodePudding user response：

First of all, chmod is for changing the permissions while chown is for changing the owners. Anyways, to exclude a directory, use -path option:

find /opt/var/ ! -path '/opt/var/.snapshot*' | xargs -I {} chown 2000:2000 {}

find /opt/var/ ! -path '*.snapshot*' | xargs -I {} chown 2000:2000 {}