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

[George Borisov <george@dxsolutions.co.uk>]

Johannes Zellner wrote:
> 
> is there a simple and fast way to change the user id for all files in
> the file system, say from 1234 to 5000?

You can use a simple bash script. Try (as root:)

for f in `find / -uid OLDUID`; do chown NEWUID $f; done


Hope this helps,

-- 
George Borisov

DXSolutions Ltd

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