Change ownership of all apps in Applications folder to current user
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| find /Applications -name "*.app" -user old-user -maxdepth 1 | tr \\n \\0 | xargs -0 sudo chown -R $USER |
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The
tr \\n \\0 | xargs -0part is to avoid recognizing spaces as command terminators. It replaces new line and space with null\0character, and use it as terminator forxargsinstead.