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