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Re: global find and replace for file ownership

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Vicente Lozano wrote:

> Could anyone recommend a good command line method (or point me to a
> previous discussion topic) for globally finding and replacing file
> ownership ?
>
> One of our administrators has recently moved on, and I would like to
> revert ownership of the project files he worked on to the admin user
> before deleting the user account.
>

This command will list the files owned by that user
find / -uid $uidOfUser -print

The trick is finding a way to progmatically change their ownership, which
is a pain as everything needs to be escaped due to spaces and high-bite
characters in filenames. That and the find and xargs on OSX suck comapred
the GNU versions on most linux systems (I want -fprintf, damint! :)

-n
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