Introduction So if you’ve read this and thought, it doesn’t work on FreeBSD then you are right. It doesn’t. Try this instead: You can use this portable find command with something like this. find . -user old-user -exec chown new-user:new-group
Change Ownership Recursively for a Single User Linux
Introduction Chown has a nice feature that will allow you to change ownership of files and directories recursively for a single user without even needing to find them. First cd into the root source directory required to change ownership of the
rsync directory tree including only files that match a certain find result
Introduction If you’ve ever needed to use regex to find specific files in a directory then you’ll know how useful it is and how much time it saves. This is for when you need to then rsync those files to