Hello I am seeking a simple solution to running a list of “chown -R” <mydir>" commands in script.sh

It takes a long time to sequentially execute all of these chown commands recursively because the directories have so many files. I want to be able to tackle the root level directories in parallel to speed things up. I imagine there must be a simple way to do this while keeping the list of commands in a single file. xargs and some of the other things I saw online looked like bad fits or would be over engineering this problem.

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    16 months ago

    What you proposed with sgid sounds like it might be what i need. All of the users are controlled my me, it’s just when they connect to the smb share of the main system from other devices, i figured it was good security to use an account that is separate from my main account on the system, so they can’t access the entire system or execute sudo commands