script to find files owned by particular user and replace with another uid

Darrin Chandler dwchandler at stilyagin.com
Wed Oct 4 17:00:22 MST 2006


On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 04:45:35PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> Anybody have a script that finds file say owned by uid=1010 and replace
> owner with uid=1020?

# find / -user 1010 -ok chown 1020 {} \;

or if you're brave

# find / -user 1010 -exec chown 1020 {} \;

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