Need help writing a simple script to chown files

[Gavin McCullagh]

On Thu, 02 Aug 2007, john  wrote:
 
> drwx------  8 john_s domain users 4096 2007-08-01 15:26 STUDENT_A
> drwx------ 10 john_s domain users 4096 2007-08-01 15:26 ANOTHERSTU_b
> 
> So what I want to do is have a script that goes recursively through and
> chown's -R the directory called STUDENT_A to be owned STUDENT_A etc.
> 
> So that it looks like:
> 
> drwx------  8 student_a domain users 4096 2007-08-01 15:26 STUDENT_A
> drwx------ 10 ANO_STU_B domain users 4096 2007-08-01 15:26 ANO_STU_B


If they're all in the same directory you can probably just do:

cd <directory>
for i in *
do
chown $i $i
done

If they're spread out a bit further you might need to do something more
complex using find.

TIP: Before running a script like the above for real, run it with echo in
front of the important command, so you get to see what it actually does, ie.

cd <directory>
for i in *
do
echo chown $i $i
done

which will print out all of the chown commands which would be run.  If
you're happy, do it again without the echo to actually run the commands
instead of printing.

Gavin