fix the owner/group of all files under a set of directories via find and chown

fix_owner.sh

#!/bin/bash
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#
# shell script to fix ownership of all files under each entry in SEARCH_PATH
#
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# space seperated list of paths
SEARCH_PATHS='/tmp/foo /tmp/bar'

# incorrect user for which we are searching
SEARCH_USER=root

# correct user/group
CHOWN_ARGS=cassandra.cassandra

### work happens here
CHANGE_COUNT=0
for DIR in $SEARCH_PATHS; do
    CHANGE_COUNT=$(( $CHANGE_COUNT + `find $DIR -user $SEARCH_USER -exec chown $CHOWN_ARGS {} \; -print | wc -l`))
done
if [[ $CHANGE_COUNT -gt 0 ]]; then 
    echo [WARNING] ownership of $CHANGE_COUNT files changed from root.\? to $CHOWN_ARGS
fi