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

[MacGyveR]

On Friday 21 October 2011 17:06:11 Mike Evans wrote:
> 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
> 
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You can just use one command:

sudo chown user: -R /home/user

As the ":" in the live above, sets the primary group of the user specified.