UID, GID, and all that

[Andrew Heagle]

A little late, but whatever

You can do this:
chown --from=joe:1002 -R joe:joe /path

This would only change file ownerships that match the --from. Throw in a -v
to log the changes if you like.

Andrew

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Peter King <peter.king-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Here's a question I should know the answer to but I'm too jet-lagged to
> think
> of it. I'm rebuilding a system, and I've set up a new boot disk, which
> involved
> creating a new everyday user (call him "joe"). I've mounted the old hard
> disk
> with lots of stuff on it that belonged to joe on the old failed system.
> But now
> while the files are identified as owned by joe as the user, the group id
> is not
> "joe" or "user" but "1002" (no such group). I suppose I could run a massive
> find-and-chgrp command, but I can't be the first person to face this
> problem,
> and there must be a simple solution, which I just can't think of right now.
> Anyone care to tell me the simple and obvious one-line solution? Even two
> lines
> would do. Thanks.
>
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