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Re: global find and replace for file ownership

try find. Basic syntax for what you want would be:

sudo find / -user olduser -exec chown newuser {} \;


Fred.

On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 12:00 PM, 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.

Thank you.


Vicente Lozano
Systems Administrator
Undergraduate Writing Center
University of Texas at Austin
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