reassign-ownership

Script to reassign ownership of files in target directory to that of the current user/group that ran the script.

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Instructions

1. Clone the repository locally to your machine.

   • Open up terminal
   • Go to desired directory e.g. cd ~\myNewDirectory
   • Enter in git clone https://github.com/ryanpaixao/iphoto-dirtree-to-flat-tree

2. Go into newly cloned repository's directory

   • Enter in cd ./iphoto-dirtree-to-flat-tree

3. Run the ownership_changer.sh script

   • Enter in ./ownership_changer.sh
     • A prompt will appear asking if you want go ahead and make the changes.
   • Enter in y
     • A prompt will appear asking you to enter in your root password
   • Enter in your root password

Example

• If the user is "DeeUser", and group is "DeeGroup"
• And the files in /home/DeeUser/Pictures belong to 'root' user and group
• Enter in ./ownership_changer.sh /home/DeeUser/Pictures
• The files will then belong to user "DeeUser" and group "DeeGroup" as well as have 644 permissions