Transfer ownership
Simple snippet to change all files belonging to one user to another user.
% find /directory-name -uid current_owner_id_number -exec chown newuser:newgroup {} +Getting the user id is as simple as:
% id usernameWritten by Jasson Cascante
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You can do it solely with chown thanks to -R (recursive) and --from options:
chown -R --from current_owner newuser:newgroup /dir-name
And I believe you don't need to fetch uid of current user, simply pass his name in --from option
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