Script to run chown on all folders and setting the owner as the folder name minus the trailing /

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Published on 2012-10-20T09:01:18Z Indexed on 2012/10/20 11:04 UTC
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Some numpty ran chown -R username. in the /home folder on our webserver thinking he was in the desired folder. Needless to say the server is throwing a lot of wobbelys.

We have over 200 websites and I don't want to chown them all individually so I'm trying to make a script that will change the owner of all the folders to the folder name, without the trailing /.

This is all I have so far, once I can remove the / it will be fine, but I'd also like to check if the file contains a . in it, and if it doesn't then run the command, otherwise go to the next one.

#!/bin/bash
for f in *

do

    test=$f;
    #manipluate the test variable
    chown -R $test $f

done

Any help would be great!

Thanks in advance!

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