>>>>> "Ryan" == Ryan Fish <FishR at bellsouth.net> writes: Ryan> Hello all, Is it possible to perform a recursive chown but Ryan> exclude one particular directory? If so, how would it be Ryan> done? I have yet to find any info on this online so I Ryan> figured I would ask... Look Ma, no perl! find top \( -name toexclude -prune \) -o -print | xargs chown blah