chown command on Compaq True64 unix server

[jodugg]

I have 100 files in a directory. Roughly half of them are owned by one user and the other half are owned by another user.

How can I use the chown command to move ownership of ALL these files to one of the two users?

Thanks!!

 

[vgersh99]

man chown

chown user2own /path2directory/*

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[PHV]

chown -R owner:group /path/to/dir

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[hfaix]

cd into your directory.

chown owner:group *

or

chown owner *