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  • do you need something more general-case than chown myUser REPO1/AREA1/objects/* REPO1/AREA2/SUBAREA1/objects/* REPO1/AREA2/SUBAREA2/objects/*? If you're OK with including every subdirectory, then something like chown myUser */*/objects/* */*/*/objects/* would catch "objects" directories at 2- and 3-layers deep. Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 1:18
  • Use find(1) to look for the files you are interested in, and use -exec to mangle their permissions. Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 1:54