Not able to change ownership of files

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • As per the application team requirement we need to change the ownership multiple files to user:user from root:root but we are getting below error:-
[rootserver ]# chown user:user *.xxx
bash: /bin/chown: Argument list too long
[root@server ]#

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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