chown group of file to new owner

[Fauziah Mahdan]

Hi all,
Is there any comamnd to change the file own by A to B in 1 command execute for all files under A to B.
Means no need to do one by one.
This is because 1 staff has create few files under her name and she resigned. I need to remove her id from uniox box and I don't want any impact like her file could not be read when her id gone.

Pls advice.

[Matti_Kurkela]

The UNIX way: there are lots of tools, each of which will do one thing. To accomplish greater things, you join two or more of the tools together.

In this case, you'll need "find" to find the files that must be changed, and "chown" to make the change.

find / -user A -exec chown B {} \+

will search through the entire system, and change the ownership of all the files and directories owned by user A to user B.

MK

[Ramesh S]

Hi

Please go thru this thread

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=764047&admit=109447626+1201684072309+28353475

Thanks & Regards

Ramesh

[Peter Nikitka]

Hi,

if all files and dirs reside under a list of directories AND all files and dirs should be changed (even if they have different owner/group), you can call
chown -R newuser:newgrp dir1 dir2 ...

mfG Peter