chown all files of removed user (symlinks)

As you have determined yourself you need to chown the files owned by user 502 to 501. You can do this with:

find / -user 502 | xargs chown username:admin

This will find all files and directories owned by user 501 and chown them to username:admin.

mtak

Posted 2014-04-09T18:21:50.950

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Thank you ... while this helped a lot, all symlinks (and thats many, since I am in the brew Cellar) are not changed. I will update the question. – Jan Galinski – 2014-04-09T20:06:44.067

You can update symlinks with with chown -h username:admin filename – mtak – 2014-04-09T21:29:45.750

The -h flag did it. My Solution:

 for f in `find . -user 502`; do echo $f; chown -h <username>:admin $f; done
 – Jan Galinski  – 2014-04-09T21:48:19.570

The | xargs-way would have worked just as well, and is probably faster ;) – mtak – 2014-04-09T21:51:51.377

It did not work right away, so I used the loop to print out some debug. – Jan Galinski – 2014-04-09T21:56:48.267

chown all files of removed user (symlinks)

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