Changing user ubuntu

gistfile1.txt

# The idea of this series of commands is to rename your home folder files asynchronously.
# If you do your whole /home/ folder in one go, it will take forever. Better to open up several terminals and run this command splitting up the task

HOME_DIR=/mnt/encrypted/home/josh5
OLD_USER=

# Make a temp directory. 
# This is where we run from to prevent our for loop from checking every folder if we add '*'
mkdir -p /tmp/blah
cd /tmp/blah


# Allow whitespace
OLDIFS=$IFS
IFS=$'\n'

# Create an array of folders to check "./a*", "./.a*"
# Make sure you leave out anything you don't want to scan. Eg, Dropbox, MEGA, etc.
declare -a FOLDERS=(
    "./.v*"
    "./.w*"
    "./.x*"
    "./.z*"
)

# Loop through the folders
for folder in "${FOLDERS[@]}"; do
    cd ${HOME_DIR};
    echo "Scanning for ${folder}";
    for f in $(grep -rl '/home/<OLDUSER>/' ${folder}); do
        echo "Refactoring $f";
        sed -i 's|/home/<OLDUSER>/|/home/josh5/|g' "$f";
    done
    cd /tmp/blah
done

IFS=$OLDIFS