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



On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:07:35PM -0400, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> chown --recursive onion: foo
> 
> will change the owners of all the files in the foo file-tree to onion, 
> and change their gropu IDs accordingly.  Leave off the colons if you 
> want them to stay in the old group.

But this will change *all* the files, not just the files
currently owned by user [blah]. Which is not what the
original poster wanted.

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