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Author: JD Austin
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Subject: Re: script to find files owned by particular user and replace with another uid
Craig White wrote:
> Anybody have a script that finds file say owned by uid=1010 and replace
> owner with uid=1020?
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> Craig
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cd to top directory then:
find . -uid 1010 -print0 | xargs chown 1020

If you want to change the group too:
find . -uid 1010 -print0 | xargs chown 1020:1020

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JD Austin
Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC
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