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

JD Austin jd at twingeckos.com
Wed Oct 4 17:07:21 MST 2006


Craig White wrote:
> Anybody have a script that finds file say owned by uid=1010 and replace
> owner with uid=1020?
>
> 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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