Fresh install Fedora 10 X86_64 problems

[Jim]

Jeff Voskamp wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>> Jeff Voskamp wrote:
>>> cd /home
>>> for x in *; do
>>> chown -R $x:$x $x
>>> done
>>>
>> That doesn't seem to work for what I'm doing.
>>
>> What I'm trying to do is change all directories/files in a   
>> /home/user, from one owner/group to another owner/group.
>>
>> When I installed FC10, fresh install and format the /  partition and 
>> left the /home partition from the old fedora 8 install
>> in place.
>> FC10 for some reason change all the directories/files to another user 
>> on box into a  /home/user.
>> I know this sounds confusing but the point,  /home/molly has the 
>> wrong   owner/group on her files.  I have got to get them back to 
>> molly:molly in /home/molly.
>>
>> Thanks again
>>
>> Thanks for your help
>>
> You saved /home on the re-install and re-created all the accounts and 
> now they don't line up?
> The above script will change /home/joe (and subdirectories) to be user 
> joe and group joe, /home/fred to user fred and group fred, etc.
> If you haven't re-created the accounts yet then that's a different 
> problem.
>
> Jeff
>
Are you saying ?

chown -R molly:molly  $x      , what is the $x suppose to represent ?