Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

[Stephen R Laniel <steve@laniels.org>]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:16:25PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
> >sudo find / -uid [old UID] |xargs -i sudo chown [new UID] '{}'
> Shouldn't it be followed by a semicolon?

Had I done

sudo find / -uid [old UID] -exec chown [new UID] '{}' \;

then yes. But with xargs, no.

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