Changing Owner and Group

[greasyfingers]

I have just copied a lot of folders and files from one user home directory to another. But the Owner and Group remain set to the original user, and I need to change them to the new user - I don't need to change the permissions per se, just the asigned Owner and Group. Is this a job for chmod, and if so, could someone give me some guidance how to do it, please?

[Seve]

Hello:
To change the owner you can use the chown command
chown username:username -R /dir/dir1
this will change the ownership on a recursive basis for all the contents of /dir/dir1
You may want to have a look at the man page for chown first if you need more help.
Edit:
Sorry forgot to add the you can use the
chgrp command to change the group if you want
Once again, see the man page for chgrp for more information.

Seve

[greasyfingers]

Got it.

Thanks, Steve.

[RupertPupkin]

If you have any symbolic links in those directories, make sure to use the -h option for chown, so that the link ownerships get changed too (not just the link references).