This function needs to be run in STRQSH.
In order to change the owner of all files and directories recursively run the following command:
for eachFile in $(find /directoryToChangeOwner -name '*');
do system "CHGOWN OBJ('"$eachFile"') NEWOWN(userProfile)";done
Note: Replace values in parenthesis with appropriate values.
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6/23/08 Recursively changing ownership on an IFS directory and all the files stored within it
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Or you can run this on a command line:
CHGOWN OBJ('directoryToChangeOwner/*') NEWOWN(newOwner)
Thank you for your feedback concerning this blog entry. If we were looking at simply changing the ownership of all files and directories within a single directory then your suggestion is more succinct and should actually finish the process faster. However, using the CHGOWN command with the asterisk in the way you suggest would change, for example, "/home/chris/*" but it would not change the content of any directories within "/home/chris". The function we have suggested above would change the ownership of "/home/chris/*/*/*/*/*" recursively, regardless of the number of levels of directory structure you have on your file system.
Or, from QSH, issue "chown -R newOwner directoryToChangeOwner".
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