[Cialug] Need assistance with chown and find commands

[Paul Gray]

On 12/19/2013 12:55 PM, Tim McLaughlin wrote:
> there are or a few different ways to do what you want,
> 
> the find command has a -exec option.
> 
> or something like:
> 
> findarray=`find ./* -user userA`
> for each in ${findarray[@]}
> do
> `chown userB $each`
> done
> 
> --Tim

find . - -user userA -exec chown userB {} \;

No need to catch and spawn.


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