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To: dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com>
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Subject: Re: Change group ID in a shell script
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From: Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca>
Date: 02 Feb 2001 04:51:28 -0500
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dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 03:54:26AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> > No, I chgrp is not what I want.  I'm running rsync to mirror a
> > directory over network, so rsync can potentially create a bunch of new
> > files.
> 
> rsync -g?

Nope, this means "preserve group".  The remote group and local group
names do not coinside.

I solved the problem by writing a Perl script instead of a shell
script (using Perl's `setpgrp').  I would still like to know how I
could do that in a shell script, though.
-- 
Arcady Genkin
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.


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