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Change ownership of all apps in Applications folder to current user
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chown-applications.sh
find /Applications -name "*.app" -user old-user -maxdepth 1 | tr \\n \\0 | xargs -0 sudo chown -R $USER
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hlung commented Jul 23, 2020 •
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The tr \\n \\0 | xargs -0 part is to avoid recognizing spaces as command terminators. It replaces new line and space with null \0 character, and use it as terminator for xargs instead.

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