Is there any equivalent of chgrp -R in python?

Question

I want to change the group name of one directory recursively, I am using os.chown() to do that. But I can not find any recursive flag like (chgrp -R) in os.chown().

So I must os.walk and change every files group using os.chown() ? — Fuji Komalan, Oct 21 '17 at 10:02

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 21 '17 at 10:04

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Why dont you just pass your command to the shell?

os.system("chgrp -R ...")

answered Oct 21 '17 at 10:04

mfnalex

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 21 '17 at 10:19

I wrote a function to perform chgrp -R

def chgrp(LOCATION,OWNER,recursive=False):

  import os 
  import grp

  gid = grp.getgrnam(OWNER).gr_gid
  if recursive:
      if os.path.isdir(LOCATION):
        os.chown(LOCATION,-1,gid)
        for curDir,subDirs,subFiles in os.walk(LOCATION):
          for file in subFiles:
            absPath = os.path.join(curDir,file)
            os.chown(absPath,-1,gid)
          for subDir in subDirs:
            absPath = os.path.join(curDir,subDir)
            os.chown(absPath,-1,gid)
      else:
       os.chown(LOCATION,-1,gid)
  else:
    os.chown(LOCATION,-1,gid)

Why so complicated when one could just pass the chgpr -R to the shell? — mfnalex, Oct 31 '17 at 10:45

Is there any equivalent of chgrp -R in python?

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