[Klug-general] A cli for bulk owner changes?

[Mike Evans]

This is exactly the sort of job where the command line is your friend - 
and that is equally so in Windows/DOS also.

chown and chgrp will help you.

Assuming you want everything under /home/user to belong to user do

sudo chown -R user /home/user
sudo chgrp -R user /home/user

at least I think that's it - check the manual page as I don't have time 
to do that right at the moment and this is from memory.

   man chown

for example.

Mike

On 21/10/11 16:45, Michael E. Rentell wrote:
> Good day all,
> I've restored my entire partition from back-up (don't ask) and I find my
> /home/user/.thunderbird sub-directory is owned by root - every file. I
> can use thunderbird with sudo and it comes up just fine, but I'd like to
> change every file from root owner to mick owner. so as I can use it as
> previously.
>
> There's gotta be a cli for that but I don't have the nouse. Can anyone
> help?
>
> Ta
>
> MikeR
>
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