LINUX: FIND COMMAND TO FIND FILES / DIRECTORIES OWNED BY PARTICULAR USER AND CHANGE USER GROUP OWNERSHIP TO ANOTHER USER

Following is command to use. Below command searches for all files owned by root user in current directory and changes user group ownership to appuser:appgroup

find . -user root -exec chown appuser:appgroup {} \;

 

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Article Author: Tarun Boyella