Fresh install Fedora 10 X86_64 problems

[Jeff Voskamp]

Jim wrote:
> Jeff Voskamp wrote:
>> Jim wrote:
>>> Jeff Voskamp wrote:
>>>> cd /home
>>>> for x in *; do
>>>> chown -R $x:$x $x
>>>> done
>>>>
>>> That doesn't seem to work for what I'm doing.
>>>
>>> What I'm trying to do is change all directories/files in a   
>>> /home/user, from one owner/group to another owner/group.
>>>
>>> When I installed FC10, fresh install and format the /  partition and 
>>> left the /home partition from the old fedora 8 install
>>> in place.
>>> FC10 for some reason change all the directories/files to another 
>>> user on box into a  /home/user.
>>> I know this sounds confusing but the point,  /home/molly has the 
>>> wrong   owner/group on her files.  I have got to get them back to 
>>> molly:molly in /home/molly.
>>>
>>> Thanks again
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help
>>>
>> You saved /home on the re-install and re-created all the accounts and 
>> now they don't line up?
>> The above script will change /home/joe (and subdirectories) to be 
>> user joe and group joe, /home/fred to user fred and group fred, etc.
>> If you haven't re-created the accounts yet then that's a different 
>> problem.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
> Are you saying ?
>
> chown -R molly:molly  $x      , what is the $x suppose to represent ?
The x comes from the second line - the * matches all folders and files.  
It's a four line script.  Cut and paste to a shell.
Or in two lines:
cd /home
for x in *; do  chown -R $x:$x $x ;done

Jeff