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To rapidly set quotas for, say 100 users, on my system to the same value as my user bob, I would first edit bob's quota information by hand, then execute:

code edquota -p bob `awk -F: '$3 > 499 {print $1}' /etc/passwd`

code

assuming that you are using csh, and that you assign your user UID's starting with 500. In addition to edquota, there are 3 terms which you should familiarize yourself with: Soft Limit, Hard Limit, and Grace Period.

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