Changing the ownership of Files owe by a user

vishnu · 07-21-2006, 06:27 AM

Hi everybody,
I am a newbie to AIX/Unix. Can any one help me in a pblm with changing the ownership of files owned bya specific user.Actually there ara lot of files in the folder which are owned by different users. but I want to change the ownership of all the files owned by a pirticular user say user1 to another user say user2 without disturbing other files or parent folder.

all replies appreciated

regards
VishnuPrasad Chaurasia

spooon · 07-21-2006, 06:37 AM

something like

Code:

find . -type f -user $user1 -exec chown $user2 '{}' \;

jstephens84 · 07-21-2006, 05:57 PM

under the Parent folder type the following.

Code:

chgrp -R user2 ./

This is only if all the files under the Parent folder is user1. Other wise All I know to do is change files individually.