Adding Files/Folders to a group

[zero_koop]

I want to share some files that I have placed in my /home/username/Public folder with other users on the same computer. I can manually right click on the folders and files and select properties, choose the Permissions tab, and change it to the group I want and that works (other users in that group can now access the file/folder). But these are my music files and there are thousands of files all in many subfolders. Clicking on the "Apply Permissions to Enclosed Files" button does not work (does nothing). How can I change all of the files and subfolders of my Public folder to another Group without doing it manually? Thanks.

[bruce89]

chgrp -R GROUP FILE

is what you want.

[zero_koop]

Thanks, so do I just

cd /home/username

first and then use the command

chgrp -R media Public

?

[zero_koop]

Ok, I think I've got it figured out. I did what I said I would do for some reason that worked for my music files, but not my pictures. My picture files/folders were grouped properly as the command did its job, but access wasn't allowed the files. This time the "Apply Permissions to Enclosed Files" button worked and successfully changed all the subfolders to a read/write/delete access.